Glusterfs

GlusterFS 3.7.20 released GlusterFS-3.7.20 has been released. This is regular bug fix release for GlusterFS-3.7, and is currently the last planned release of GlusterFS-3.7. GlusterFS-3.10 is expected next month, and GlusterFS-3.7 enters EOL once it is released. The community will be notified of any changes to the EOL schedule. The release-notes for GlusterFS-3.7.20 can be read here. The release tarball and community provided packages can obtained from download.gluster.org. The CentOS Storage SIG packages have been built and should be available soon from the centos-gluster37 repository. ...

GlusterFS 3.7.19 released GlusterFS 3.7.19 is a regular bug fix release for GlusterFS-3.7. The release-notes for this release can be read here. The release tarball and community provided packages can obtained from download.gluster.org. The CentOS Storage SIG packages have been built and should be available soon from the centos-gluster37 repository. A reminder to everyone, GlusterFS-3.7 is scheduled to be EOLed with the release of GlusterFS-3.10, which should happen sometime in February 2017.

GlusterFS 3.7.18 released (finally) GlusterFS 3.7.18 has been released, about a week late. This is a regular scheduled release for GlusterFS-3.7 and includes 13 bug fixes since 3.7.17. The release-notes can be read here. The tarball can be downloaded from download.gluster.org. The CentOS Storage SIG packages have been built and should be available in the centos-gluster37 release repository. Packages for other distros are available from download.gluster.org. See the READMEs in the respective subdirs at download.gluster.org for more details on how to obtain them. ...

Designing and prototyping volgen for GD2 I’ve recently begun working on volgen for GD2. This post gives an overview of what I’ve been doing till now. Some background first One of the requirements for GD2 is to make it easier to modify the volume graphs, in particular make it easier to add new translators into the volume graph. GlusterD right now has hardcoded graph topologies in its code. This makes it very hard to begin modify graphs. This made it hard for features like tiering to do their stuff. ...

GlusterFS 3.7.16 released (very very late) GlusterFS 3.7.16 has been finally released, over 2 weeks late. The late release was due to a combination of the Gluster summit and me falling sick. This is a regular scheduled release for GlusterFS-3.7 and includes 20 bug fixes since 3.7.15. The release-notes can be read here. The tarball can be downloaded from download.gluster.org. The CentOS Storage SIG packages have been built and are available in the centos-gluster37-test repository. These should be available in the release repository soon. ...

GlusterFS 3.7.15 released GlusterFS 3.7.15 has been released. This is a regular scheduled release for GlusterFS-3.7 and includes 38 bug fixes since 3.7.14. The release-notes can be read here. Downloads The tarball can be downloaded from download.gluster.org. Packages Binary packages have been built are in the process of being made available as updates. The CentOS Storage SIG packages have been built and will become available in the centos-gluster37-test repository (from the centos-release-gluster37 package) shortly. These will be made available in the release repository after some more testing. ...

GlusterFS 3.7.14 released GlusterFS 3.7.14 has been released. This is a regular scheduled release for GlusterFS-3.7 and includes 26 bug fixes since 3.7.13. The release-notes can be read here. Downloads The tarball can be downloaded from download.gluster.org. Packages Binary packages have been built are in the process of being made available as updates. The CentOS Storage SIG packages have been built and will become available in the centos-gluster37-test repository (from the centos-release-gluster37 package) shortly. These will be made available in the release repository after some more testing. ...

I just presented a talk on GlusterD Next Gen / GlusterD-2.0 at the first ever Gluster Summit at Barcelona. I’m embedding the slide deck here for all to see. Fullscreen it to see it properly (you also need to use Chrome/Chromium to get the slide renedered correctly, some issue with CSS that I’m too lazy to fix).

Introduction GlusterFS has supported network encryption using TLS/SSL since GlusterFS-3.5. GlusterFS-3.5 supported encryption only on the I/O connections, ie. the connections between GlusterFS clients and servers. GlusterFS-3.6 introduced support for encrypting the manangement connections, the connections between GlusterDs within a trusted storage pool. When using network encryption, GlusterFS also uses TLS/SSL for authentication and authorization, in place of the home grown auth framework used for normal connections. Though encryption has been supported for quite some time, the number of users using it has been minimal. Originally, this was due to the lack of proper documentation. This was addressed recently by Jeff Darcy 2. The linked document gives a pretty good introduction to TLS/SSL concepts and how it is used in GlusterFS. ...