[Gluster-devel] A big thank you for GlusterFS, comments on roadmap

[Krishna Srinivas]

Hi Brent,

Thanks for your encouraging words. We really appreciate it.
I agree with you that glusterfs needs to penetrate user community
more. People have started to take notice of the glusterFS now and
we are working hard to make sure that users are happy about
the product.

Great to know that you are willing to deploy glusterFS at your
department. Your feed back on the product will be of immense
help for us to make it better. We will surely consider your
suggestions.

Thanks!
Krishna


On 3/21/07, Brent A Nelson <brent at phys.ufl.edu> wrote:
> 1.3 is starting to look pretty solid to me, and I'll be strongly urging
> our big cluster folks here (as well as our campus in general) to try it
> out. GlusterFS is an amazingly flexible and simple/easy piece of software,
> and it already deserves a great deal of attention from the community.
> Word needs to spread, and hardly anyone has heard of it.  Frankly, I hope
> it becomes the de facto standard for networked/distributed filesystems in
> general, not just for HPC clusters.
>
> I will be considering a full department deployment of GlusterFS with
> version 1.4 (with its self-healing so we can do fully automated
> fault-tolerance), although even 1.3 is tempting and a major improvement
> over our existing system.  We'll be drooling over the TLS, quotas,
> snapshots, and ACLs in 1.5, and the dynamic reconfiguration in 1.6 will
> give us long-term peace-of-mind (we'll be able to add and remove nodes and
> disks whenever we need to without disrupting our users, every sysadmin's
> dream).
>
> The encryption support in 1.8 may also be rather appealing, although we
> care most about encryption over-the-wire and not as much about encryption
> on disk; perhaps that will be provided with the TLS support in 1.5.  On a
> related note, has anyone suggested GSSAPI support? This would provide
> over-the-wire encryption as well as user-level rather than node-level
> shares.
>
> Many, many thanks! GlusterFS is already a dream come true (and getting
> more so on an almost daily basis)!
>
> Brent Nelson
> Director of Computing
> Dept. of Physics
> University of Florida
>
>
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