Hi! Congrats about release! Is there any tool for migration from Unify to Distribute (DHT)? Avati wrote some time ago that such a tool is planned, but I still can't find any mention about it in the tla logs. Actually, it is the lack of this tool prevents me from moving to 1.4 (2.0) branch... WBR, Andrey 2009/1/21 Anand Babu Periasamy <ab@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > GlusterFS v2.0.0rc1 Announcement > > We are happy to announce the first RC release of GlusterFS v2.0. This is a > major improvement towards small-file-performance and scalability. Unify has > a better scalable alternative called "Distribute", an elastic hash based > algorithm. AFR has been renamed to "Replicate" for simplicity. v2.0 is > backward compatible with v1.x disk layout. We are eagerly waiting to hear > feedback from the community before we call it a stable v2.0.0 release. > Download GlusterFS v2.0.0rc1 from http://www.gluster.org/download.php > > * New to this release: distribute - elastic hash based scheduling for > linear scalability > * storage/bdb - distributed BerkeleyDB based storage backend for very small > files > * binary protocol - bit level protocol headers (CPU and network effecient) > * mod_glusterfs - GlusterFS Apache / Lighttpd module for web embeddable > storage > * Non-blocking I/O - highly responsive socket I/O > * enhanced replicate - atomic writes to handle power-loss, split-brains > * HA - high availability translator > * NUFA - Non-Uniform-File-Access translator for cloud/HPC storage > * root squash - NFS root squashing and uid/gid mapping >
