[Users] Update from 3.2 to 3.3 (CentOS 6.4)

[Joop]

Mike Burns wrote:
> On 09/16/2013 04:30 PM, Joop wrote:
>> H. Haven Liu wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is there any recommended procedure for updating from 3.2 to 3.3
>>> (namely on a CentOS 6.4 system), or anything one should be careful
>>> when doing such update?
>> Be careful when you use glusterfs, not nfs over glusterfs, but read the
>> release-notes. It should have something to say about glusterfs domain
>> not (yet) working on el6.
>> Saw a small discussion on irc just yet and my two cents are that you
>> can't add el6 support to ovirt in release 3.2 and then withdraw it with
>> 3.3 and say well just wait for Centos/Rhel-6.5.
>
> We haven't removed any functionality in 3.3.  In 3.2, we added support 
> for gluster domains through a POSIXFS interface.  In 3.3, we're adding 
> a feature where we support gluster natively.  This works in Fedora, 
> but is not available on EL6.  The POSIXFS option still exists
You're right but what about users who want to use the (much) improved 
speed of the gluster domain over the POSIXFS interface? They are left 
out or they should move to Fed19 which I would do but I need to convince 
a couple of other people as well and they aren't going to agree.

>
>> The kernel can come from elrepo so that is not a burden for the ovirt
>> team, qemu/libvirt should be build by the ovirt team and be available
>> from the ovirt repo. At the moment I also see/saw Jboss-7.1.1
>> qemu/libvirt wouldn't be the first packages to be in the ovirt-repo
>> which are also in the main distributions repos.
>
> We're trying to work out a way to do this in a consistent manner going 
> forward.  We should have a solution soon, but in the meantime, the 
> other functionality and features should work on both Fedora and EL6.
Thanks for the clarification and I'm waiting eagerly for what/when the 
solution comes out.

Joop