<div dir="ltr"><div>Greetings everyone,<br><br></div>I want to bring up for discussion a proposition that I personally think may be very beneficial to the project.<br clear="all"><div><div>This proposition involves modification in the DHT layer and the design and implementation of other distribution mechanism.<br></div><div>As of today, Gluster employs a per-directory layout mechanism. A different approach, Global Layout, might provide substantial benefits to the product.<br></div><div>For more details regarding this proposal, I&#39;ve created the following GitHub issue and POC doc:<br><a href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1433" target="_blank">https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1433</a><br><a rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wX8BBcenOK_GbUCGuJN8vlZIEkZ4MbvD3EFDegot-kM/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wX8BBcenOK_GbUCGuJN8vlZIEkZ4MbvD3EFDegot-kM/edit?usp=sharing</a><br><br></div><div>I welcome all of you to share your news on the subject.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you all.<br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin-left:44px"><div style="margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-bottom:5px"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="RedHatText, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;text-transform:capitalize"><b>Barak Sason Rofman</b></span></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-left:44px"><div style="margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-bottom:5px"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:overpass,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;padding:0px;text-transform:uppercase"><span style="font-family:RedHatText,sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-transform:capitalize;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Gluster Storage </span><span style="font-family:RedHatText,sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-transform:capitalize;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Development</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-left:44px"><div style="margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-bottom:5px"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px 0px 4px;font-size:12px;font-family:RedHatText,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.redhat.com/" style="color:rgb(0,136,206);margin:0px" target="_blank">Red Hat Israel</a></p><div style="margin-bottom:4px"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:RedHatText,sans-serif">34 Jerusalem rd. Ra&#39;anana, 43501</p></div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:RedHatText,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px">bsasonro<a href="mailto:adi@redhat.com" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px" target="_blank">@redhat.com</a>   </span> T: <u>+972-9-7692304</u><br>M: <u>+972-52-4326355</u></p><div style="font-size:12px;font-family:RedHatText,sans-serif;margin-bottom:8px"><a href="https://twitter.com/redhat" title="twitter" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background:transparent url(&quot;https://marketing-outfit-prod-images.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/3780bd4ede961ef3cd4108b8c0e80186/web-icon-twitter.png&quot;) no-repeat scroll 0px 50%/13px auto;display:inline-block;line-height:20px;padding-left:13px" target="_blank"><span style="margin-left:2px">@RedHat</span></a>   <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/red-hat" title="LinkedIn" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background:transparent url(&quot;https://marketing-outfit-prod-images.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/8d3507e3c6b6c9ad10e301accf1a4af0/web-icon-linkedin.png&quot;) no-repeat scroll 0px 50%/12px auto;display:inline-block;line-height:20px;padding-left:12px;margin:0px 4px 0px 3px;padding-top:1px" target="_blank"><span style="margin-left:4px">Red Hat</span></a>  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/redhat.il/" title="Facebook" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background:transparent url(&quot;https://marketing-outfit-prod-images.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/220b85e2f100025e94cb1bcd993bd51d/web-icon-facebook.png&quot;) no-repeat scroll 0px 50%/11px auto;display:inline-block;line-height:20px;padding-left:13px" target="_blank">Red Hat</a></div><div style="margin-top:12px"><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="100px"><a href="https://red.ht/sig" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><img src="https://static.redhat.com/libs/redhat/brand-assets/latest/corp/logo.png" width="90" height="auto"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>