Important happenings for Gluster this month:

Gluster 3.9 is out!

https://blog.gluster.org/2016/11/announcing-gluster-3-9/

Gluster’s Annual Community Survey is open until December 9th!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/gluster2016

Results to come out in the December newsletter.

Gluster is supporting the Software Defined Storage DevRoom at FOSDEM, speakers to be announced by December 11th, 2016.

We also have a stand at FOSDEM, with a call for volunteers: http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-November/029339.html

Gluster-users:

Lindsay Mathieson asks for suggestions around Improving IOPS http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-November/028927.html

Thomas Wakefield requests assistance on implementing Gluster in a university setting http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-November/028959.html

ML Wong asks for deatils around ganesha-ha.sh http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-November/028958.html

Andrew Boag promotes a Recent Gluster-related talk at OpenStack summit http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-November/028980.html

Dan-Joe Lopez posts about Automation of single server addition to replica

http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-November/029014.html

songxin has a question about info and info.tmp

http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-November/029035.html

Saravanakumar Arumugam asks for help with FSFE pads to github wiki / alternative etherpad – info. required

http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-November/029038.html

ML Wong encounters an issue with 3.7.16 with sharding corrupts VMDK files whenadding and removing bricks

http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-November/029074.html

Olivier Lambert has a question around corruption using gluster and iSCSI with LIO

http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-November/029200.html

Alexandr Porunov is interested in enabling shared_storage

http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-November/029223.html

Abhishek Paliwal has an issues with  duplicate UUID entries in “gluster peer status” command

http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-November/029243.html

Shyam announces release 3.10 schedule

http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-November/029272.html

Gluster-devel:

Nokia et al posts about an issue with the size of fstat is less than the size of the syslog file –  http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051341.html

Jonathan Holloway has an update on Glusto-tests and libraries  –  http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051369.html

Nigel asks for assistance with NFS Debugging for Glusto tests and Glusto help in general http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051406.html

Raghavendra Gowdappa requests Feedback on DHT option “cluster.readdir-optimize”

http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051417.html

Abhishek Paliwal has a question around getting “Transport endpoint is not connected” in glusterfs mount log file

http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051431.html

Sander Eikelenboom asks: Is it possible to turn an existing filesystem (with data) into a GlusterFS brick ?

http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051485.html

Humble Devassy Chirammal announces a Container Repo Change + > 50K downloads of Gluster Container images

http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051499.html

Lindsay Mathieson has a Feature Request: Lock Volume Settings

http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051505.html

Kaushal M announces a new dev release for GlusterD2 – v4.0dev-3

http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051547.html

Ankireddypalle Reddy requests Hole punch support

http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051610.html

Gluster-infra:

Shyam notes a FB: Branch creation http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-infra/2016-November/002978.html

Top 5 contributors:

Nigel Babu, Krutika Dhananjay, Pranith Kumar K, Poornima Gurusiddaiah, Rajesh Joseph

Upcoming CFPs:

KubeCon Europe – December 16th –  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudnativecon-and-kubecon-europe/program/cfp

Vault  – January 14th –

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/vault/program/cfp

Incontro DevOps – January 8th –

http://www.incontrodevops.it/call-for-papers/

Red Hat Summit  – December 16th –  https://rh2017.smarteventscloud.com/portal/cfp/cfpLogin.ww