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

Gordan Bobic gordan at bobich.net
Tue Nov 3 00:51:39 UTC 2009


On 02/11/2009 21:18, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote:
> 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?

> 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.

So why does it require the fuse package to install and fuse-devel to build?

> 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).

Thanks, I already got a blurb on the subject from Harsha last week. :)

> 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.

I'd still say that healing on open files should be been a requirement 
for 1.0, not to mention outright erroneous behaviour (the mentioned rm 
-rf bug). But better late than never. ;)

I'll check the bugs I reported against 2.0.x this week and report back 
on how many of them don't show up any more.

Gordan





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