[Gluster-devel] Re: [List-hacking] GlusterFS 1.0-rc2

[Hitesh Chellani]

Hi Guys.....Good Job!

I shall now spread the work amongst key partners / potential customers 
that FS is here, have no fear, have a beer!!!!!!

Gosh, I put W B Yeats to shame!

Too late in the night for me, over & out!

Hitesh

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Amar S. Tumballi wrote:
> Hi,
>  Gluster Core team is happy to announce the release of GlusterFS v1.0-rc2.
>
> The tarball is available at
>  http://gnu.zresearch.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/glusterfs-1.0.rc2.tar.gz
>
> GlusterFS 1.0-rc2 Release Notes:
> Focus of this release has been mainly on performance (phase-I) and
> scalability. Most notable improvement is the asynchronous 
> communication framework to allow fine-grained parallelism.
>
> This release includes:
> * 1.x release uses a new asynchronous communication framework to allow 
> fine-grained parallelism.
> * New 'write-back' translator.
> * GlusterFS now controls the flow and main loop by getting rid of fuse 
> stack and only use the low-level fuse interface for binding to 
> VFS. This also removes a great number of unwanted getattr lookups,
> thereby improving speed.
> * Transport interface is separated out of protocol code and is now
> loadable module.
> * Simplified glusterfsd server startup arguments.
>
> Few weeks from now you will find 2 more releases which will introduce 
> massive performance boot with the following modules: ib-verbs 
> transport driver (Infiniband low level RDMA), ld-preload GlusterFS 
> client (direct interface, no context switches), scalable locking 
> support, Vector-I/O (zero copying) and extensive POSIX compliance 
> testing.
>
> Regards,
> Gluster Core Team
>
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