[Gluster-devel] GlusterFS v2.0.0rc1 Release

[NovA]

Hi!

Congrats about release!

Is there any tool for migration from Unify to Distribute (DHT)? Avati
wrote some time ago that such a tool is planned, but I still can't
find any mention about it in the tla logs. Actually, it is the lack of
this tool prevents me from moving to 1.4 (2.0) branch...

WBR,
  Andrey

2009/1/21 Anand Babu Periasamy <ab at gluster.com>:
> 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
>