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The Gluster community is pleased to announce the release of 6.0, our latest release. This is a major release that includes a range of code improvements and stability fixes along with a few features as noted below. Specifically,  this release addresses one of the major concerns regarding FUSE mount process memory footprint, by introducing client side …Read more

Today, we are announcing the availability of GCS (Gluster Container Storage) 0.5. Highlights and updates since v0.4: GCS environment updated to kube 1.13 CSI deployment moved to 1.0 Integrated Anthill deployment Kube & etcd metrics added to prometheus Tuning of etcd to increase stability GD2 bug fixes from scale testing effort. Included components: Glusterd2: https://github.com/gluster/glusterd2 …Read more

See you at FOSDEM! We have a jampacked Software Defined Storage day on Sunday, Feb 3rd  (with a few sessions on the previous day): https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/software_defined_storage/ We also have a shared stand with Ceph, come find us! Gluster 6 – We’re in planning for our Gluster 6 release, currently scheduled for Feb 2019. More details on …Read more

Gluster Monthly Newsletter, October 2018 Gluster 5 is out and our retrospective is currently open! This feedback is anonymous and goes to our release team. https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-October/035171.html https://www.gluster.org/gluster-5-0-retrospective/ Upcoming Community Meeting  – November 7, November 21 – 15:00 UTC in #gluster-meeting on freenode. https://bit.ly/gluster-community-meetings has the agenda. We’re participating in Outreachy this cycle! https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/gluster/ Want swag …Read more

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Gluster 5.0 is just around the corner! We’re in testing for 5.0rc0, https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2018-September/005073.html has more details for testing with CentOS.   Community Meeting – October  15:00 UTC in #gluster-meeting on freenode. https://bit.ly/gluster-community-meetings has the agenda.   We’re participating in Outreachy this cycle! https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/gluster/   Want swag for your meetup? https://www.gluster.org/events/ has a contact form for …Read more

mountpoint August 27-28 at the Vancouver Convention Center! We’ve published some schedule updates: https://mountpoint.io/ If you haven’t already registered, please do! Registration is available at https://mountpoint.io    Community Meeting – August 1, 15:00 UTC in #gluster-meeting on freenode. https://bit.ly/gluster-community-meetings has the agenda.   Want swag for your meetup? https://www.gluster.org/events/ has a contact form for us …Read more

mountpoint We’ve published the program schedule for mountpoint! Registration available at: http://mountpoint.io/   4.1 Released: our 4.1 release came out in June! Have you installed it? Do you have thoughts on how our releases could be improved? Our 4.1 retrospective is out! https://www.gluster.org/4-1-retrospective/   Community Meeting postponed due to July 4 Holiday, next community meeting …Read more

Gluster 4.0! At long last, Gluster 4.0 is released! Read more at: https://www.gluster.org/announcing-gluster-4-0/ Other updates about Gluster 4.0: https://www.gluster.org/more-about-gluster-d2/ https://www.gluster.org/gluster-4-0-kubernetes/   Want to give us feedback about 4.0? We’ve got our retrospective open from now until April 11. https://www.gluster.org/4-0-retrospective/   Welcome piragua! https://github.com/gluster/piragua – Piragua emulates the heketi api to provide directories on a single …Read more

Special thanks to all of our contributors working to get Gluster 4.0 out into the wild. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be posting on the blog about some of the new improvements coming out in Gluster 4.0, so watch for that! Glustered: A Gluster Community Gathering is happening on March 8, in connection with Incontro …Read more

Hi All, First of all, happy new year 2018! Hope all of your wishes come true this year, and hope you will have time for contributing to Gluster Project this year too 🙂 As a contributor and one of the maintainers to the project I would like to propose below plans for Gluster Project, and …Read more

A New Year’s Eve edition of the monthly happenings in Gluster!   Gluster Summit Recordings If you missed out on Gluster Summit, our recordings are available on our YouTube channel in our Gluster Summit 2017 Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjCssFKEMhUSb2CFNvayyVYbTaagcaeE   Gluster Developer Conversations Our next hangout is on Jan 16, 15:00 UTC! Want to sign up? http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2017-December/033047.html …Read more

We’re finding this an even more effective way to get feedback from the community – so we’re opening another retrospective for our 3.13 release. What do you want the Gluster community to know?   [gravityform id=”7″ title=”true” description=”true”]

This is a major release that includes a range of features enhancing usability; enhancements to GFAPI for developers and a set of bug fixes. Addition of summary option to the heal info CLI Addition of checks for allowing lookups in AFR and removal of ‘cluster.quorum-reads’ volume option Support for max-port range in glusterd.vol Prevention of …Read more

  Great news! We’ve released 3.12! https://www.gluster.org/3-12/announcing-glusterfs-release-3-12-0-long-term-maintenance/ This is a major release that will be Long Term Stable. Notable feature highlights are: Ability to mount sub-directories using the Gluster native protocol (FUSE) Brick multiplexing enhancements that help scale to larger brick counts per node Enhancements to gluster get-state CLI enabling better understanding of various bricks …Read more

Probably everybody who cares already knows that GlusterFS 3.3 has been released. I find it amusing that quorum enforcement is listed as one of the marquee features, since it’s really such a trivial bit of code compared to the other features on the list, or to internal but significant changes such as the new GFID-based […]

One of the key features of GlusterFS, or any horizontally scalable system like it, is the ability to rebalance data as servers are added, removed, etc. How is that done? Come to think of it, what does “balance” even mean in such a system, and why is it so important to have it? Intuitively, balance […]

My recent work on High Speed Replication is not the only thing I’ve done to improve GlusterFS performance recently. In addition to that 2x improvement in synchronous/replicated write performance, here are some of the other changes in the pipeline. Patch 3005 is a more reliable way to make sure we use a local copy of […]

In my last post, I promised to talk a bit about some emergent properties of the current replication approach (AFR), and some directions for the future. The biggest issue is latency. If you will recall, there are five basic steps to doing a write (or other modifying operation): lock, increment changelog, write, decrement changelog, unlock. […]