[Gluster-users] Gluster Monthly Newsletter, March 2016

Amye Scavarda amye at redhat.com
Wed Mar 23 02:03:22 UTC 2016


Gluster Monthly Newsletter, March 2016

Great things this month, and a major upcoming event:
3.7.9 release on March 22 -
http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-March/025922.html
3.8 roadmap and release planning
-http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048728.html
Niels de Vos is kicking off a great deal of our work on 3.8
Previously:
Automated Tiering in Gluster:
http://blog.gluster.org/2016/03/automated-tiering-in-gluster/
Gluster at FAST: http://blog.gluster.org/2016/02/gluster-at-fast/
Gluster at NOS: http://blog.gluster.org/2016/03/nos-conf-2016/

Upcoming event:
Vault - http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/vault

http://vault2016.sched.org/event/68kI/glusterfs-and-its-distribution-model-sakshi-bansal-red-hat
- GlusterFS and its Distribution Model - Sakshi Bansal
http://vault2016.sched.org/event/68kA/glusterfs-facebook-richard-warning-facebook
- GlusterFS @ Facebook - Richard Waering
http://vault2016.sched.org/event/68kY/arbiter-based-replication-in-gluster-without-3x-storage-cost-and-zero-split-brains-ravishankar-n-red-hat
-  Arbiter based Replication in Gluster- without 3x Storage Cost and
Zero Split-Brains! - Ravishankar N.
http://vault2016.sched.org/event/68kW/tiering-in-glusterfs-hardware-config-considerations-veda-shankar-red-hat
- Tiering in GlusterFS: Hardware Config Considerations - Veda Shankar
http://vault2016.sched.org/event/68km/ganesha-gluster-scale-out-nfsv4-kaleb-keithley-red-hat-gluster-storage
- Ganesha + Gluster scale out NFSv4 - Kaleb Keithley
http://vault2016.sched.org/event/68kZ/huge-indexes-algorithms-to-track-objects-in-cache-tiers-dan-lambright-red-hat
-  Huge Indexes: Algorithms to Track Objects in Cache Tiers - Dan
Lambright
http://vault2016.sched.org/event/68kl/glusterd-20-managing-distributed-file-system-using-a-centralized-store-atin-mukherjee-red-hat
-  GlusterD 2.0 - Managing Distributed File System Using a Centralized
Store - Atin Mukherjee
http://vault2016.sched.org/event/68k9/understanding-client-side-shared-cache-with-pblcacle-luis-pabon-red-hat
-  Understanding Client Side Shared Cache with Pblcacle - Luis Pabon
http://vault2016.sched.org/event/68kM/deploying-pnfs-over-distributed-file-storage-jiffin-tony-thottan-red-hat
-  Deploying pNFS over Distributed File Storage - Jiffin Tony Thottan
http://vault2016.sched.org/event/68vm/storage-as-a-service-with-gluster-vijay-bellur-red-hat
- Storage as a Service with Gluster - Vijay Bellur, Red Hat
http://vault2016.sched.org/event/6Qy3/lessons-learned-containerizing-glusterfs-and-ceph-with-docker-and-kubernetes-huamin-chen-red-hat
- Lessons Learned Containerizing GlusterFS and Ceph with Docker and
Kubernetes - Huamin Chen

Noteworthy threads:

++ gluster-users ++
GlusterFS FUSE Client Performance Issues  - Ravishankar N comments
that the FUSE client Performance Issues will be resolved with the
3.7.9 release -
http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-February/025576.html
SELinux support in the near future!!! -  Manikandan S outlines support
for SELinux in upcoming releases -
http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-March/025919.html
Default quorum for 2 way replication   -  Pranith kicks off a
conversation about quorum in 2 way replication,
http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-March/025672.html

++ gluster-devel ++
 Quality of Service in Glusterfs - Raghavendra Gowdappa kicks off a
discussion on QoS   -
http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048539.html
Updates on GD2 from Kaushal -
http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048755.html
 GD2 ETCD Bootstrapping  - Atin provides an update on GlusterD 2.0  -
http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048759.html
On backporting fixes - Raghavendra Talur begins a discussion on
backporting patches and tests. -
http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048782.html
Improving subdir export for NFS-Ganesha
 - Jiffin Tony Thottan starts a discussion if this should be in 3.7.9
or 3.8 http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048746.html
 Fuse Subdirectory mounts, access-control and sub-directory
geo-replication, snapshot features -  Pranith Kumar Karampuri (and
Kaushal) gives a two-part update on design.
http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048537.html
http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048639.html

 Gluster Top 5 Contributors in the last 30 days:
Niels de Vos, Mohammed Rafi KC,  Kaleb Keithley, Soumya Koduri, Sakshi Bansal

Upcoming CFPs:
 Flock: http://www.flocktofedora.org  - April 8
 LinuxCon Japan:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-japan/program/cfp  -
May 6
 LinuxCon North America:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america/program/cfp
 - April 26th
 LinuxCon Europe:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe/program/cfp -
June 17
 LISA: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa16/call-for-participation
- April 25th

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