[Gluster-devel] GlusterFS 4.0 round two?

[Amar Tumballi]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Jeffrey Darcy <jdarcy at redhat.com> wrote:

> I know we're all busy with other things, but it has been a little over a
> month
> since this discussion started.  There are a lot of really good comments on
> the
> Google Docs version (http://goo.gl/qLw3Vz) and we're at risk of "losing
> our
> place" if we don't try to keep things going.  In particular, the issue of
> how
> these plans relate to 3.6 feature planning, which also needs to conclude
> soon.
> To pick a couple of examples:
>
> * There's a 3.6 item to make glusterd more scalable, but there are many
> more
>   scalability issues that need to be addressed and the later 4.0 proposal
>   tries to tackle a few.  Should we even try to address scalability in the
>   3.x series, or just leave it entirely to 4.x?  If we try to do both, how
>   should we resolve the incompatibilities that the second proposal
> introduces
>   relative to the first?
>
> * One of the hottest 3.6 items is tiering, data classification, whatever
> you
>   want to call it.  I say it's hot because everyone else - e.g. Ceph, HDFS,
>   Swift - has recognized this as an important feature and they're all
> making
>   significant moves here.  Again, the 4.0 proposal contains some ideas that
>   touch on this, not always compatible with earlier ideas.  Which should we
>   work on, and how should we address their differences?
>
> If we don't complete the discussions about 4.0, we won't be able to reach
> any
> reasonable conclusions about when/how it should diverge from 3.x.  Should
> we
> set a deadline for a second draft and/or an IRC meeting to discuss the
> comments
> we've already collected?
>
>
+1

It is very important to keep momentum for this, otherwise, the amount of
work planned for 4.0 would never be 'done'. Also, would be very important
to track the deadlines as an action item in every weekly IRC meeting.

Regards,
Amar
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