[Gluster-devel] GlusterFS v2.0.0rc1 Release

[Dan Parsons]

Yay for new release!

Can you tell me what differences there are between 2.0.0rc1 and  
1.4.0tla846?

(testing your ioc patch now, btw)


Dan Parsons



On Jan 20, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote:

> 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!
> --
> GlusterFS Team
>
>
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