[Gluster-devel] GlusterFS v2.0.0rc1 Release

[rhubbell]

Nice, congratulations.  
I notice there's no mention of Solaris. An omission or is there no support on
Solaris?

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:31:40 -0800
Anand Babu Periasamy <ab at gluster.com> 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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