[Gluster-devel] Few details needed about *any* recent or upcoming feature

[Atin Mukherjee]

1. Why GlusterD 2.0

- Gluster has come a long way being the POSIX-compliant distributed
filesystem in clusters of small to medium sized clusters (10s-100s).
Gluster.Next is a collection of improvements to push Gluster's
capabilities to cloud-scale (read 1000s of nodes). GlusterD 2.0, the
next version of our native Gluster management software, aims to offer
devops-friendly interfaces to build, configure and deploy a
'thousand-node' Gluster cloud.

2. A high level description

- The high level goal is to replace the current order-n-squared
heartbeat/membership protocol with a much smaller "monitor cluster"
based on Paxos or Raft. Replication of store can also be built using
consistent distributed store like etcd/consul where only a subset of
peers maintain the store. The transaction framework will be built around
this store.

The design  should be modular with pluggable interfaces such that every
features which consumes GlusterD becomes a separate plugin and feature
owners owns the same. This will bring down lot of maintainability issues
seen over recent past. GlusterD 2.0 will also focus on extending
GlusterD to support new features as well as the external integration.

We believe the following are important when we design a scalable
enterprise-grade system. At scale, node failures, network failures are
more common and the following are a few things we would continuously
work on:
* Query APIs, REST for every new feature/capability
* Useful and searchable logs
* Better documentation (both user and development)


I'd request other 4.0 feature owners to share their feature details with
Niels.

Thanks,
Atin

On 01/20/2016 04:11 PM, Niels de Vos wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> on Saturday the 30th of January I am scheduled to give a presentation
> titled "Gluster roadmap, recent improvements and upcoming features":
> 
>   https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/gluster_roadmap/
> 
> I would like to ask from all feature owners/developers to reply to this
> email with a short description and a few keywords about their features.
> My plan is to have at most one slide for each feature, so keep it short.
> 
> Thanks,
> Niels
> 
> 
> 
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