Hello Cephers,
i too am for LTS releases or for some kind of middle ground like longer
release cycle and/or have even numbered releases designated for
production like before. We all use LTS releases for the base OS when
running Ceph, yet in reality we depend much more on the Ceph code than
the base OS.
Another thing we hear our users want, after stability, is performance.
it ultimately determines the cost of the storage solution. I think this
should be high on the priority list. I know there has been a lot of
effort with Crimson development for a while, but from my opinion if Ceph
was run by a purely commercial company, getting this out the door as
quickly as possible would take priority.
We may have different opinions on priorities but one thing for sure:
Ceph is the best storage solution hands down, so kudos to all involved.
/Maged
On 18/11/2021 09:51, Janne Johansson wrote:
Den ons 17 nov. 2021 kl 18:41 skrev Dave Hall <kdhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
The real point here: From what I'm reading in this mailing list it appears
that most non-developers are currently afraid to risk an upgrade to Octopus
or Pacific. If this is an accurate perception then THIS IS THE ONLY
PROBLEM.
You might also consider that Luminous had a bad streak somewhere in
the middle, so if people
are cautious about .0 / .1 releases, wait until .5-.9 and still get
burnt, that feeling gets stuck in your mind.
Kraken was experimental, so Hammer and Jewel clusters waited for L to
settle, then they got all kinds of
weird bugs in the middle of that release cycle anyway.
Jumping to a newish Mimic might not have felt like the best option to
escape Lum bugs.
Half of the problem of running into bugs like the ones in Lum is that
you often need to be able to move back out of them, before moving
forward again.
There is no guarantee that the developed-in-parallel M point release
.0/.1/.2 will have
corrective code that fixes the newly introduced errors in Lum, so
holding out for the
next Lum point will sometimes feel safer.
If you wonder why people wait for Oct to have ten or so releases
before upgrading to it,
meaning they are stuck in something that is unsupported by the time
Oct has "proven itself",
this would be one of the reasons. For new clusters, I would not mind
starting with as
late a release as possible.
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