[Gluster-devel] GlusterFS v2.0.0rc1 Release

[Anand Babu Periasamy]

GlusterFS v2.0.0rc1 Announcement

We are happy to announce the first RC release of GlusterFS v2.0. This is a major 
improvement towards small-file-performance and scalability. Unify has a better scalable 
alternative called "Distribute", an elastic hash based algorithm. AFR has been renamed to 
"Replicate" for simplicity. v2.0 is backward compatible with v1.x disk layout. We are 
eagerly waiting to hear feedback from the community before we call it a stable v2.0.0 
release. Download GlusterFS v2.0.0rc1 from http://www.gluster.org/download.php

  * New to this release: distribute - elastic hash based scheduling for linear scalability
  * storage/bdb - distributed BerkeleyDB based storage backend for very small files
  * binary protocol - bit level protocol headers (CPU and network effecient)
  * mod_glusterfs - GlusterFS Apache / Lighttpd module for web embeddable storage
  * Non-blocking I/O - highly responsive socket I/O
  * enhanced replicate - atomic writes to handle power-loss, split-brains
  * HA - high availability translator
  * NUFA - Non-Uniform-File-Access translator for cloud/HPC storage
  * root squash - NFS root squashing and uid/gid mapping

Happy Hacking!
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GlusterFS Team