RFE: officially stop supporting 32-bit platforms beginning with 7.0

[kalebskeithley]

Not really an enhancement.

I suggested this somewhere, IRC, -dev mailing list, not sure. Nor am I sure that it registered.

I seriously doubt anyone is running on 32-bit platforms any more. Even Raspberry-Pi is 64-bit now. Even Ceph has stopped supporting 32-bit with Nautilus/14.x.x.

But it's probably still worth continuing to build it on 32-bit in the CI just to keep people honest (and correct) about sprintf format strings and other 32-bit-isms.

[amarts]

I am happy with this proposal, and we can do this from glusterfs-8 (another 3-4 months).

Let the smoke run, so we can capture any formatting errors etc.

[mykaul]

Would be nice to move to all native int (64b) in the return codes (and align with ssize_t where it makes sense - system calls such as lgetxattr for example)

[jameshilliard]

Even Raspberry-Pi is 64-bit now.

Newer versions are but I expect older versions would still be used for a while.

[amarts]

Now that glusterfs-7.0 is almost ready, should we take this proposal and agree to go ahead?

The change is only in having a officially available build of 32bit, and code will still continue to work on 32bit (as we will have smoke test for the same).

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[stale]

Closing this issue as there was no update since my last update on issue. If this is an issue which is still valid, feel free to open it.

[JonChesterfield]

What was the resolution to this? The two platforms I would most like to run glusterfs on are the odroid hc2 (arm) and the pc engines apu2 (x86), both of which 32 bit, but I'll keep looking for a 64 bit alternative if necessary.

edit: actually misread the spec on jaguar, the apu2 is x86-64. So it's only the hc2 that is still of interest to me.

[PhilippKuntschik]

sorry for the bump.

@JonChesterfield I have the same issue: 4 odroid xu4 boards that only run 32bit. May I ask if you have a solution to host a distributed file system on these machines? Or did you go forward to replace the boards all together?

[k-van-man]

The Odroid HC1 is also 32 bit, and now running Ubuntu 22.04 with k3s up-and-running, For the fun part I want to install GlusterFS that works, but it will not run, it crashes with a coredump. Isn't there a small fix? Or can I use another 32-bit supported version?