I wouldn't backport unless strictly necessary. In my opinion, this is not a bug but an improvement.
On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 9:03 AM, Andrei Dulceanu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > With [0] and [1] blob chunking in cold standby was addressed in 1.8. I > think now we have a stable and robust solution which got rid of the 2.14 > GB/blob limitation. As a positive side-effect, the memory footprint needed > for a successful sync of a big blob reduced considerably. While previously > 4GB of heap memory were needed for syncing 1GB blob, now only 512MB are > needed for the same operation. > > Considering all the above, I was wondering if it would make sense to > backport these fixes to 1.6.x. I know that traditionally we only backport > bug fixes, but depending on how you look at it, the limitation was also > kind of a bug :). I was only considering 1.6.x as a candidate branch > because the cold standby code in 1.8 and 1.6.x is 98% the same. > > Thanks, > > Andrei > > [0] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-5902 > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-6565
