[Gluster-users] Announcement: Alpha Release of Native NFS for GlusterFS

[Justice London]

I'm sorry.. but I don't know how you guys tested this, but using a
bare-bones configuration with the NFS translator and a mirror
configuration between two systems (no performance translators, etc.) I
can lock up the entire system after writing 160-180megs of data.

Basically:
dd if=/dev/full of=testfile bs=1M count=1000 is enough to lock the
entire machine.

This is on a CentOS 5.4 system with a xen backend (for testing).

I don't know what you guys tested with, but I can't get this stable...
at all.

Justice London
jlondon at lawinfo.com
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 10:36 -0600, Tejas N. Bhise wrote:
> Dear Community Users,
> 
> Gluster is happy to announce the ALPHA release of the native NFS Server.
> The native NFS server is implemented as an NFS Translator and hence
> integrates very well, the NFS protocol on one side and GlusterFS protocol
> on the other side.
> 
> This is an important step in our strategy to extend the benefits of
> Gluster to other operating system which can benefit from a better NFS
> based data service, while enjoying all the backend smarts that Gluster
> provides.
> 
> The new NFS Server also strongly supports our efforts towards
> becoming a virtualization storage of choice.
> 
> The release notes of the NFS ALPHA Release are available at -
> 
> http://ftp.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/qa-releases/nfs-alpha/GlusterFS_NFS_Alpha_Release_Notes.pdf
> 
> The Release notes describe where RPMs and source code can be obtained
> and where bugs found in this ALPHA release can be filed. Some examples 
> on usage are also provided.
> 
> Please be aware that this is an ALPHA release and in no way should be
> used in production. Gluster is not responsible for any loss of data
> or service resulting from the use of this ALPHA NFS Release.
> 
> Feel free to send feedback, comments and questions to: nfs-alpha at gluster.com
> 
> Regards,
> Tejas Bhise.
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