Hi Brent, Thanks for your encouraging words. We really appreciate it. I agree with you that glusterfs needs to penetrate user community more. People have started to take notice of the glusterFS now and we are working hard to make sure that users are happy about the product. Great to know that you are willing to deploy glusterFS at your department. Your feed back on the product will be of immense help for us to make it better. We will surely consider your suggestions. Thanks! Krishna On 3/21/07, Brent A Nelson <brent@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
1.3 is starting to look pretty solid to me, and I'll be strongly urging our big cluster folks here (as well as our campus in general) to try it out. GlusterFS is an amazingly flexible and simple/easy piece of software, and it already deserves a great deal of attention from the community. Word needs to spread, and hardly anyone has heard of it. Frankly, I hope it becomes the de facto standard for networked/distributed filesystems in general, not just for HPC clusters. I will be considering a full department deployment of GlusterFS with version 1.4 (with its self-healing so we can do fully automated fault-tolerance), although even 1.3 is tempting and a major improvement over our existing system. We'll be drooling over the TLS, quotas, snapshots, and ACLs in 1.5, and the dynamic reconfiguration in 1.6 will give us long-term peace-of-mind (we'll be able to add and remove nodes and disks whenever we need to without disrupting our users, every sysadmin's dream). The encryption support in 1.8 may also be rather appealing, although we care most about encryption over-the-wire and not as much about encryption on disk; perhaps that will be provided with the TLS support in 1.5. On a related note, has anyone suggested GSSAPI support? This would provide over-the-wire encryption as well as user-level rather than node-level shares. Many, many thanks! GlusterFS is already a dream come true (and getting more so on an almost daily basis)! Brent Nelson Director of Computing Dept. of Physics University of Florida _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
