The release of GlusterFS 3.3.0 by the Gluster Community marks a major milestone in Clustered File Storage. GlusterFS is the leading open source solution for the dramatically increasing volume of unstructured data. It is a software-only, highly available, scale-out, centrally managed storage pool that can be backed by any POSIX filesystem that supports extended attributes, such as Ext3/4, XFS, BTRFS and many more.
As an example of Red Hat’s goal of building strong, independent, open source communities, GlusterFS 3.3.0 marks the first release as an “upstream” project with its own release schedule. This release addresses many of the most commonly requested features including proactive self-healing, quorum enforcement, and granular locking for self-healing, as well as many more bug fixes and enhancements.
Some of the more noteworthy features include:
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