GlusterFS 1.3-SUSKE Release

26 April 2008

Since the GlusterFS v1.2-BENKI Jan 2007 release, we have long awaited for this day. v1.3 development has been a roller coaster ride. We tried to achieve too many goals at the same time. After a number of revisions, we now have a good combination of useful functionalities, decent performance and acceptable stability. We name this version of GlusterFS v1.3.8 as the official beginning of stable 1.3-SUSKE series.

Download: http://ftp.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/1.3/
Documentation: http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS
Supported OS: GNU/Linux, Mac OS X Leopard, FreeBSD (server only), Solaris (server only).
(Some users got GlusterFS client to work on Solaris and FreeBSD. We are yet to qualify the availability).

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Whats in 1.3-SUSKE

Clustering Mode:

• File level distribution (Unify)
• Automatic file replication / Mirroring (AFR)
• Distributed striping (Stripe)
• Mixed mode (Unify + AFR + Stripe)

I/O Schedulers:

• Round robin
• Random
• Wild card
• Adaptive least usage
• Non-uniform file system access

Inter-connect Driver:

• TCP/IP
• Infiniband verbs RDMA
• Infiniband sockets direct protocol
• Unix domain socket

Performance Modules:

• Booster (kernel bypass)
• I/O cache
• I/O threads
• Read ahead
• Write behind

Storage Back-end:

• POSIX FS
• *Berkeley DB

Misc Modules:

• POSIX locks
• Trashcan
• Authentication - user/pass, source-IP
• *Meta (proc like management / monitoring interface)
• Trace logger
• Rot-13 rudimentary encryption
• Filter
• Fixed owner / group

Test Automation:

• GlusterFS Unit Test Automation

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Known Issues (Top Priority):

• Default timeout of 108 seconds is too long
• BerkeleyDB backend - symlink, rmdir and transactions support pushed to next release
• IB verbs reconnection issue on certain firmware versions