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Gluster Monthly Newsletter, February 2019

Amye Scavarda
2019-03-07

Thank you all for giving us feedback in our user survey for February!

Help us test Gluster 6!
https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-February/055876.html

Contributors
Top Contributing Companies: Red Hat, Comcast, DataLab, Gentoo Linux, Facebook, BioDec, Samsung, Etersoft

Top Contributors in February: Yaniv Kaul, Raghavendra G, Nithya B, Amar Tumballi, Sanju Rakonde, Shyamsundar R

Noteworthy Threads:
[Gluster-users] Memory management, OOM kills and glusterfs https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-February/035782.html
[Gluster-users] Code of Conduct Update https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-February/035895.html
[Gluster-users] Disabling read-ahead and io-cache for native fuse mounts https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-February/035848.html
[Gluster-users] Gluster Container Storage: Release Update https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-February/035860.html
[Gluster-devel] I/O performance https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-February/055855.html
[Gluster-devel] Path based Geo-replication https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-February/055836.html
[Gluster-devel] Failing test case ./tests/bugs/distribute/bug-1161311.t https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-February/055842.html
[Gluster-devel] GlusterFs v4.1.5: Need help on bitrot detection
https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-February/055859.html
[Gluster-devel] md-cache: May bug found in md-cache.c
https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-February/055862.html
[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-Maintainers] glusterfs-6.0rc0 released
https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-February/055875.html
[Gluster-devel] GlusterFS – 6.0RC – Test days (27th, 28th Feb)
https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-February/055876.html
https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/035938.html
[Gluster-users] Release 6: Release date update https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/035961.html

Events:
Red Hat Summit, May 4-6, 2019 – https://www.redhat.com/en/summit/2019
Open Source Summit and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Shanghai, June 24-26, 2019 https://www.lfasiallc.com/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-china-2019/

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