Gluster users - Nov 2022 - Right way to use community Gluster on genuine RHEL?

To be honest, I have no idea how to answer that.Rocky guys do not want to
duplicate the work,? as we got GlusterFS in CentOS Stream (see
https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/glusterfs-repos-location/6630/7 ) while the
CentOS guys confirmed my suspicion -> once Stream is dead, the whole infra
will be deleted (see https://www.spinics.net/lists/centos-devel/msg21628.html )
and no more packages will be available.
As IBM's Red Hat is now abandoning GlusterFS, I see a lot of challanges for
the project.
Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov?
 
 
  On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 13:55, Ville-Pekka Vainio<ville-pekka.vainio at
csc.fi> wrote:   Hi!

I?m reviving an old thread, because my questions are related to the original
topic.

Are there any community packages available in any repository which are built
against the stable Alma or Rocky 9?
Is there a risk that Gluster packages built against CentOS 9 Stream would at
some point be incompatible with the stable Alma/Rocky 9?

RH promises ABI compatibility for some libraries, but if I understand correctly,
liburcu (the RPM named userspace-rcu) is not one of those and there?s a chance
it could change between EL9 minor releases.

I?m able to rebuild the srpm, if needed, but it?d be convenient if there was a
repository.

Best regards,
Ville-Pekka
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> On 23. Nov 2022, at 1.03, Strahil Nikolov <hunter86_bg at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> 
> To be honest, I have no idea how to answer that.
> Rocky guys do not want to duplicate the work,  as we got GlusterFS in
CentOS Stream (see
https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/glusterfs-repos-location/6630/7 ) while the
CentOS guys confirmed my suspicion -> once Stream is dead, the whole infra
will be deleted (see https://www.spinics.net/lists/centos-devel/msg21628.html )
and no more packages will be available.
Thanks for attempting to answer!

The discussions seem to have been mainly around EL8 and we are interested in
EL9.
It seems we will need to test CentOS Storage SIG packages against EL9 stable
although they have been built against CentOS 9 Stream.
If there are any compatibility issues, we will need to rebuild Gluster from the
source RPMs.

Best regards,
Ville-Pekka

On 11/22/22 17:03, Strahil Nikolov wrote:
> To be honest, I have no idea how to answer that.
> Rocky guys do not want to duplicate the work,? as we got GlusterFS in 
> CentOS Stream (see 
> https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/glusterfs-repos-location/6630/7 ) 
> while the CentOS guys confirmed my suspicion -> once Stream is dead, 
> the whole infra will be deleted (see 
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/centos-devel/msg21628.html ) and no more 
> packages will be available.
>
> As IBM's Red Hat is now abandoning GlusterFS, I see a lot of 
> challanges for the project.
>
> Best Regards,
> Strahil Nikolov
So what do you think will happen? If Red Hat is bailing, it seems like 
Gluster isn't going to be around much longer, is it?

That's a real bummer, it was a pretty cool tool.

Thomas