[Gluster-devel] GlusterFS 1.3.0-pre2.3: robustness

[Gerry Reno]

Excellent. Just what I was hoping to hear. We'll look forward to pre3.
1.4 is probably what we will need minimally to test GlusterFS in limited 
production usage so we'll
be anxiously awaiting that release.

GlusterFS is becoming a really great project and we'll certainly spread 
the word around.

Thanks to everyone on the GlusterFS team. Keep up the great work.

Gerry
Tampa, Florida


Anand Babu Periasamy wrote:
> ,----[ Gerry Reno writes: ]
> | Ok, I setup a four brick AFR test and it is working. Well at least
> | as long as nothing goes wrong. But if I take down one of the
> | servers (glusterfsd) and try to write to any of the mounts then the
> | whole thing hangs. This is the type of situation that I am hoping
> | will be handled gracefully. I've had tcp/ip stacks hang, servers
> | hang and need rebooted and once back up the whole cluster needs to
> | be able to recover itself.
> `----
>
> Gracefully handling connection timeouts and retries will be in pre3
> release. We are hoping to make pre3 as the last preview release before
> 1.3 stable.
> 1.4 will have Self-heal functionality with journaled, lazy recovery
> mechanisms that will make AFR very smooth. As of now if a brick goes
> down and you will have to use tools like rsync or unison to sync
> before you bring it back online.
>