Re: GlusterFS-1.4 to become GlusterFS-2.0

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I'm about to switch from 1.3.11 to the latest rc of 1.4... how much different will 2.0 be from 1.4? Or will 2.0 effectively be the latest version of 1.4 rc7 + bug fixes etc? Or will it be a totally different branch?

I suppose the best course of action would be to wait until 2.0 but I really need that io-cache leak fix now.


Dan Parsons


On Jan 5, 2009, at 3:59 AM, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote:

Dear Community,
Since the 1.3 release, we have come a long way to reach this level of code maturity. We are preparing to call the next release as the 2.0.0 instead of 1.4.0. There are real technical reasons to do so. We want to sincerely apologize for this confusion.

REASONS FOR THE VERSION CHANGE:
* Significant architectural enhancements and code-rewrites since v1.3.X. - AFR rewrite, non-blocking IO, binary protocol and single address mode * Current code base will remain as the foundation for upcoming major releases, featuring hot-management, active-heal, defrag, snapshot, NDMP and cloning.
* New features:
 - Distribute: elastic hash based clustering
 - Apache / Lighttpd embeddable
 - Distributed BerkeleyDB
 - Atomic writes in AFR
 - High-Availability translator
 - NUFA translator
* Improved performance and scalability, particularly for small files.
* Changes towards simplification
 - "distribute" supersedes complicated "unify"
 - "AFR" renamed as "replicate"
 - Simpler documentation using "distribute", "replicate" and "stripe"
 - Standardized volume templates for most common use cases

2.0.0rc1 will be available in a week. Before we call it 2.0.0, we want to
to achieve the following:
* Seamless migration for 1.3 users
* Clean and complete documentation
* Binary packages for GNU/Linux (rpm/deb), FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris (server)
* And most importantly the community blessing for 2.0 stable release.

Happy Hacking!
--
GlusterFS Team



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