Gluster Community Newsletter, March 2016
Great things happening this month!
- 3.7.9 release on March 22
- 3.8 roadmap and release planning
Niels de Vos is kicking off a great deal of our work on 3.8 - Previously, Automated Tiering in Gluster, Gluster at FAST, Gluster at NOS
Upcoming for next Month:
Linux Foundation Vault
GlusterFS and its Distribution Model – Sakshi Bansal
GlusterFS @ Facebook – Richard Wareing
Arbiter based Replication in Gluster without 3x Storage Cost and Zero Split-Brains! – Ravishankar N.
Tiering in GlusterFS: Hardware Config Considerations – Veda Shankar
Ganesha + Gluster scale out NFSv4 – Kaleb Keithley
Huge Indexes: Algorithms to Track Objects in Cache Tiers – Dan Lambright
GlusterD 2.0 – Managing Distributed File System Using a Centralized Store – Atin Mukherjee
Understanding Client Side Shared Cache with Pblcacle – Luis Pabon
Deploying pNFS over Distributed File Storage – Jiffin Tony Thottan
Storage as a Service with Gluster – Vijay Bellur, Red Hat
Lessons Learned Containerizing GlusterFS and Ceph with Docker and Kubernetes – Huamin Chen
Noteworthy threads:
gluster-users
GlusterFS FUSE Client Performance Issues – Ravishankar N comments that the FUSE client Performance Issues will be resolved with the 3.7.9 release –
SELinux support in the near future!!! – Manikandan S outlines support for SELinux in upcoming releases
Default quorum for 2 way replication – Pranith kicks off a conversation about quorum in 2 way replication
gluster-devel
Quality of Service in Glusterfs – Raghavendra Gowdappa kicks off a discussion on QoS
Updates on GD2 from Kaushal
GD2 ETCD Bootstrapping – Atin provides an update on GlusterD 2.0
On backporting fixes – Raghavendra Talur begins a discussion on backporting patches and tests
Improving subdir export for NFS-Ganesha
– Jiffin Tony Thottan starts a discussion if this should be in 3.7.9 or 3.8
Fuse Subdirectory mounts, access-control and sub-directory geo-replication, snapshot features – Pranith Kumar Karampuri (and Kaushal) gives a two-part update on design.
Gluster Top 5 Contributors in the last 30 days:
Niels de Vos, Mohammed Rafi KC, Kaleb Keithley, Soumya Koduri, Sakshi Bansal
Upcoming CFPs:
Flock: April 8
LinuxCon Japan: May 6
LinuxCon North America: April 26th
LinuxCon Europe: June 17
LISA: April 25th