[Gluster-devel] GlusterFS 3.0pre1 (Whats in 3.0)

[Anand Babu Periasamy]

Gordan Bobic wrote:
> It would appear that this requires fuse-devel to build, at least as an 
> RPM. My understanding was that 3.0 doesn't require fuse libraries and 
> talks directly to the kernel module. Is that an error in my 
> understanding or an error in the spec file for building the RPMs?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Gordan

Hi Gordan, you are correct. GlusterFS 3.0 does not require fuse library. It directly talks
to fuse kernel module. Csaba Henk (fuse maintainer) implemented this functionality.
He is part of GlusterFS team, dedicated to enhancing fuse kernel module. This approach
makes installation relatively easier and improves performance as well.

Key highlights of 3.0 are
* Background self-healing: Applications won't be blocked any more during healing operation.
* Checksum based healing: Rsync like healing mechanism to heal only the inconsistent 
blocks within a file.
* Healing on the fly: Files can be healed even when the files are open and application is 
performing active I/O.
* Generation numbers: Self-healing can now reliably handle tricky corner cases (such as 
"rm -rf" bug).

All of the above are very useful in a virtualization and database environment, where files
are very large and applications need to run non-stop.

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