This feature is about having WORM-based compliance/archiving solution in glusterfs. It mainly focus on the following Compliance: Laws and regulations to access and store intellectual property and confidential information. WORM/Retention : Store data in a tamper-proof and secure way & Data accessibility policies Archive: Storing data in effectively and efficiently & Disaster-Recovery solution   WORM …Read more

Gluster.org announces the release of 3.8 on June 14, 2016, marking a decade of active development.   The 3.8 release focuses on: containers with inclusion of Heketi hyperconvergence ecosystem integration protocol improvements with NFS Ganesha   Contributed features are marked with the supporting organizations.   Automatic conflict resolution, self-healing improvements (Facebook) Synchronous Replication receives a …Read more

Great things happening this month! 3.7.9 release on March 22 3.8 roadmap and release planning Niels de Vos is kicking off a great deal of our work on 3.8 Previously, Automated Tiering in Gluster, Gluster at FAST, Gluster at NOS Upcoming for next Month: Linux Foundation Vault  GlusterFS and its Distribution Model – Sakshi Bansal GlusterFS …Read more

This post describes how to run automated tiering in Gluster. Tiering is appropriate for stable workloads where frequently used data fits on small, fast storage, such as SSDs, and rarely used data resides on a slower/cheaper volume, such as spinning disks. On a tiered volume, files are tracked according to frequency of access. Popular files tend to migrate to faster storage, and unpopular ones to slower storage. The …Read more

In my previous post, I talked about the sharding feature – what it does, where it is useful, etc. You can read that post here: http://blog.gluster.org/2015/12/introducing-shard-translator. When we designed and wrote sharding feature in GlusterFS, our focus had been single-writer-to-large-files use cases, chief among these being the virtual machine image store use-case. We are happy …Read more

GlusterFS-3.7.0 saw the release of sharding feature, among several others. The feature was tagged as “experimental” as it was still in the initial stages of development back then. Here is some introduction to the feature: Why shard translator? GlusterFS’ answer to very large files (those which can grow beyond a single brick) had never been …Read more

NFS-Ganesha 2.3 is rapidly winding down to release and it has a bunch of new things in it that make it fairly compelling. A lot of people are also starting to use Red Hat Gluster Storage with the NFS-Ganesha NFS server that is part of that package. Setting up a highly available NFS-Ganesha system using …Read more

We’ve just wrapped up a great week at LinuxCon Europe 2016 in Dublin with a great showing from the Gluster community! BitRot Detection in GlusterFS – Gaurav Garg, Red Hat & Venky Shankar Advancements in Automatic File Replication in Gluster – Ravishankar N Gluster for Sysadmins – Dustin Black Open Storage in the Enterprise with …Read more

Since we did not have any weekly Gluster news go out in September, this post tries to capture and summarize action from the entire month of September 2015. ==  General News == GlusterFS won yet another Bossie in the open source platforms, infrastructure, management, and orchestration software category. Long time users of the project might …Read more

Facebook hosted a great crowd on Monday, September 14, in Silicon Valley with about 30 attendees and a full night of presentations about Gluster. We started by introducing our new Gluster Community Lead, Amye Scavarda. You’ll see her a lot more in the coming months promoting Gluster and the Gluster community. The talks started with …Read more

GlusterFS 3.7 beta1 RPMs for RHEL, CentOS, (except EL5) and Fedora are available at download.gluster.org. 🙂 http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/qa-releases/3.7.0beta1/ Please test it out (not on your production system!), and let us know of any problems you hit via either BugZilla or our mailing lists! https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=GlusterFS http://www.gluster.org/community/

Over the past few days we’ve upgraded the version of Gerrit running on review.gluster.org, and moved to using GitHub as the authentication source for user accounts. This switch to GitHub as the authentication source has been fairly painful though. 🙁 There is a manual step (merging of accounts) needed the first time an existing user …Read more

The 4th beta for GlusterFS 3.4.7 is now available for testing. A handful of bugs have been fixed since the 3.4.6 release, check the references below for details. Bug reporters are encouraged to verify the fixes, and we invite others to test this beta to check for regressions. The ETA for 3.4.7 GA is tentatively …Read more

The 2nd beta for GlusterFS 3.4.7 is now available for testing. A handful of bugs have been fixed since the 3.4.6 release, check the references below for details. Bug reporters are encouraged to verify the fixes, and we invite others to test this beta to check for regressions. The ETA for 3.4.7 GA is not …Read more

There is plenty of action planned out for GlusterFS in the period between Jan 30th to Feb 8th 2015. Our community enthusiasts will be attending and presenting at various conferences and meetups across the globe. Here is a breakdown of the planned action: GlusterFS QuickStart Tutorial by Lalatendu Mohanty at the CentOS Dojo in Brussels, …Read more

Lalatendu Mohanty, Niels de Vos, and myself will be holding GlusterFS Office Hours at FOSDEM. Look for us at the CentOS booth, from 16h00 to 17h00 on Saturday, 31 January. FOSDEM is taking place this weekend, 31 Jan and 1 Feb, at ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels. FOSDEM is a free event, no registration is necessary. …Read more

Bitrot detection review, again: http://bit.ly/12bAQDr Dec 2nd, 1300 UTC, 0500AM PST We will be discussing approaches to providing BitRot detection in future GlusterFS releases. Please join us to discuss your ideas and learn more about GlusterFS futures. BitRot detection is a technique used to identify an “insidious” type of disk error where data is silently …Read more

The Gluster community is please to announce the release of updated releases for the 3.4 and 3.5 family. With the release of 3.6 a few weeks ago, this is brings all the current members of GlusterFS into a more stable, production ready status. The GlusterFS 3.4.6 release is focused on bug fixes. The release notes …Read more

A little bit of background—— We started to track API/ABI changes to libgfapi.so by incrementing the SO_NAME, e.g. libgfapi.so.0(.0.0). In the master branch it was incremented to to ‘7’ or libgfapi.so.7(.0.0) for the eventual glusterfs-3.7. I believe, but I’m not entirely certain¹, that we were supposed to reset this when we branched for release-3.6. Reset …Read more

Even though GlusterFS-3.6.0 was released last week, maintenance continues on the 3.4 stable series! The 2nd beta for GlusterFS 3.4.6 is now available for testing. Many bugs have been fixed since the 3.4.5 release, check the references below for details. Bug reporters are encouraged to verify the fixes, and we invite others to test this …Read more