Hi, Gluster Core team is happy to announce the release of GlusterFS v1.0-rc2. The tarball is available at http://gnu.zresearch.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/glusterfs-1.0.rc2.tar.gz GlusterFS 1.0-rc2 Release Notes: Focus of this release has been mainly on performance (phase-I) and scalability. Most notable improvement is the asynchronous communication framework to allow fine-grained parallelism. This release includes: * 1.x release uses a new asynchronous communication framework to allow fine-grained parallelism. * New 'write-back' translator. * GlusterFS now controls the flow and main loop by getting rid of fuse stack and only use the low-level fuse interface for binding to VFS. This also removes a great number of unwanted getattr lookups, thereby improving speed. * Transport interface is separated out of protocol code and is now loadable module. * Simplified glusterfsd server startup arguments. Few weeks from now you will find 2 more releases which will introduce massive performance boot with the following modules: ib-verbs transport driver (Infiniband low level RDMA), ld-preload GlusterFS client (direct interface, no context switches), scalable locking support, Vector-I/O (zero copying) and extensive POSIX compliance testing. Regards, Gluster Core Team -- http://www.gluster.org (#gluster on irc.gnu.org)
