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

[Anand Avati]

Brent,
  your words are very encouraging! thank you!


> Frankly, I hope it becomes the de facto standard for 
> networked/distributed filesystems in general, not just for HPC clusters.

we strongly hope that happens very soon!

> 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), 

we will provide all our support towards that. also we are welcome for
feedback for shaping the future.


> 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.  

If it is only the file contents you care about, loading the encryption
translator will not only encrypt the content, but by loading it on
client side you get both on-wire and on-disk encryption. ofcourse with
both TLS and encryption translator you can have any combination of
on-disk/on-wire encryptiong


> related note, has anyone suggested GSSAPI support? This would provide
> over-the-wire encryption as well as user-level rather than node-level
> shares.


Not yet, will surely have a look.

thanks!
avati


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