[Ocfs2-users] Differences in 1.2 vs 1.4

[Sunil Mushran]

Definitely upgrade to 1.2.9-1. No point sticking with 1.2.8. 1.2.9 has 
been out
since june. This is a no-brainer.

To 1.4 or not, with less than 2 weeks before golive, is a harder call. 
If nothing
else, it would also require a kernel upgrade.

We fix bugs in both releases. Actually, all three when you include the 
mainline
kernel. The one open issue with 1.4 is an EIO when doing odirect ios on an
unaligned sized file. This is not in 1.2. It has been fixed in mainline. 
1.4.2
will have the fix.

The good news is that you can always upgrade to 1.4 later. As in, the ondisk
format is the same. So unless there is a feature that 1.4 provides that 
you have
to use, I would suggest you stick to 1.2 and plan to upgrade to 1.4 in 
the near-term.

Diane Petersen wrote:
> Hello -
>
> I see there are 2 latest releases of OCFS2 1.2.9-1 and 1.4.1-1.
>
> I know there are new features available in 1.4, but was wondering if 
> the level of bug fixes is the same for both?
>
> We will be going live in less than 2 weeks with 11g RAC (11.1.0.7) 
> running on RH5 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 currently using OCFS2 1.2.8-2 and 
> wanted to know if there is a compelling reason to upgrade the kernel 
> to RH5 U2 for OCFS2 1.4 or if upgrading to 1.2.9-1 would be 
> appropriate? I know there may be other reasons for upgrading the 
> kernel before the go-live date, but really want to know if there's a 
> benefit to being on OCFS2 1.4 versus 1.2.9.
>
> Thank you,
> Diane Petersen
>
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