[OpenAFS] 1.2.13 vs. 1.3.81

[Neulinger, Nathan]

We've been running "current" code for a long time, occasionally
updating, and our experience for the most part has been positive. Only
problems we've had are ones that are long standing never resolved -
where random clients at random times are unable to communicate with
random combinations of servers.

There is some hint that some of those bugs may be resolved in the newer
1.3.x server and client releases, but don't have any real definite
information there.=20

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-6679
UMR Information Technology             Fax: (573) 341-4216
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org=20
> [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Derrick=20
> J Brashear
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:07 AM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] 1.2.13 vs. 1.3.81
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> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Marcus Watts wrote:
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> > We currently run 1.2.13 in production on the fileservers for the
> > umich.edu cell, but have now run up against two problems related to
> > callback logic of varying severity, which turn out to have fixes in
> > recent 1.3.x.  Our production staff is highly allergic to=20
> the idea of
> > running anything that has the description "unstable", like "unstable
> > development branch"; but I'm beginning to think that this is way
> > preferable to trying to backport fixes out of recent 1.3 to the 1.2
> > branch.
> >
> > As it happens, we're having a meeting in less than 12 hours=20
> to discuss
> > all this, so I'm highly curious how people feel on this list: is
> > 1.3.80/81 more stable than 1.2.13?  What do people actually run in
> > production?  Is there in fact any more work planned for the 1.2
> > branch?  Do you have any particular words of advice for our=20
> production
> > staff if they should be keen on continuing with 1.2.13 despite the
> > problems we've had?  Any thoughts on 1.3.80 vs. 1.3.81 vs. whatever?
> > (This will all be on linux / x86 hardware.)
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> A 1.2.14 with known existing fixes (hence needing less=20
> testing) is a very=20
> real possibility, but 1.4 is realistically near also. Perhaps=20
> you wish to=20
> exercise the paranoia with which new software releases are=20
> often met, and=20
> not run the .0 version of it. Perhaps not.
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> I will let other people comment on what they think of 1.3.8x on their=20
> machines, but as far as servers I don't think anything which=20
> went into .81=20
> is that exciting.
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