[Gluster-users] A very special announcement from Gluster.org

[John Mark Walker]

See this post - http://vbellur.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/upgrading-to-glusterfs-3-3/ 

Will publish that on gluster.org very soon. 

-JM 

----- Original Message -----

> Is there a migration guide from 3.2.5 to 3.3 available?

> On 5/31/12 12:33 PM, John Mark Walker wrote:
> > Today, we’re announcing the next generation of GlusterFS , version
> > 3.3. The release has been a year in the making and marks several
> > firsts: the first post-acquisition release under Red Hat, our first
> > major act as an openly-governed project and our first foray beyond
> > NAS. We’ve also taken our first steps towards merging big data and
> > unstructured data storage, giving users and developers new ways of
> > managing their data scalability challenges.
> 
> > GlusterFS is an open source, fully distributed storage solution for
> > the world’s ever-increasing volume of unstructured data. It is a
> > software-only, highly available, scale-out, centrally managed
> > storage pool that can be backed by POSIX filesystems that support
> > extended attributes, such as Ext3/4, XFS, BTRFS and many more.
> 
> > This release provides many of the most commonly requested features
> > including proactive self-healing, quorum enforcement, and granular
> > locking for self-healing, as well as many additional bug fixes and
> > enhancements.
> 
> > Some of the more noteworthy features include:
> 

> > • Unified File and Object storage – Blending OpenStack’s Object
> > Storage API with GlusterFS provides simultaneous read and write
> > access to data as files or as objects.
> 
> > • HDFS compatibility – Gives Hadoop administrators the ability to
> > run
> > MapReduce jobs on unstructured data on GlusterFS and access the
> > data
> > with well-known tools and shell scripts.
> 
> > • Proactive self-healing – GlusterFS volumes will now automatically
> > restore file integrity after a replica recovers from failure.
> 
> > • Granular locking – Allows large files to be accessed even during
> > self-healing, a feature that is particularly important for VM
> > images.
> 
> > • Replication improvements – With quorum enforcement you can be
> > confident that your data has been written in at least the
> > configured
> > number of places before the file operation returns, allowing a
> > user-configurable adjustment to fault tolerance vs performance.
> 

> > Visit http://www.gluster.org to download. Packages are available
> > for
> > most distributions, including Fedora, Debian, RHEL, Ubuntu and
> > CentOS.
> 
> > Get involved! Join us on #gluster on freenode, join our mailing
> > list
> > , ‘like’ our Facebook page , follow us on Twitter , or check out
> > our
> > LinkedIn group .
> 
> > GlusterFS is an open source project sponsored by Red Hat ®, who
> > uses
> > it in its line of Red Hat Storage products.
> 
> > (this post published at
> > http://www.gluster.org/2012/05/introducing-glusterfs-3-3/ )
> 

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