[Gluster-devel] 4.0 ideas

[Shyam]

On 05/08/2015 04:28 AM, Niels de Vos wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 02:15:20PM -0400, Jeff Darcy wrote:
>> Last week, those of us who were together in Bangalore had a meeting to
>> discuss the GlusterFS 4.0 plan.  Once we'd covered what's already in
>> the plan[1] we had a very productive brainstorming session on what else
>> we might want to consider adding.  Here are some of my notes, in no
>> particular order, for discussion either here on the list or in person at
>> the upcoming Barcelona summit.
>
> ...
>
>> * FTP or STFP (sshfs) client using GFAPI
>>    I've proposed this as a potential intern project.
>
> Good idea :D It happens that I suggested this addition for lftp too
> already (for the C++ lovers):
>
>      http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/lftp
>
>
> There are some other features that should land in 4.0, or possibly even
> earlier. I'll add them here for awareness, once we start looking into
> more details about them, we'll send notes to the mailinglists.
>
> * Kerberos support for the GlusterFS protocols
>    Clients and servers will become able to authenticate eachother through
>    their Kerberos TGTs. Encryption of the network transport will also be
>    an option. This would look very much like Kerberized NFS.

+1
This can be helpful when we do things in DHT2 where the pseudo meta data 
servers authorize access on behalf of clients to the data nodes.

>
> * Rich Access Control Lists
>    POSIX ACLs are too limited for certain access protocols. NFSv4 and SMB
>    are the main drivers to get support for richacls on the bricks and
>    through libgfapi. Once NFS-Ganesha, Samba and Gluster prove that
>    richacls fulfill their promise, it will become easier to convince the
>    Linux kernel people to implement/accept patches for richacls too.
>
>
> Niels
>
>>
>> [1] http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Planning40
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