I think the number 1 feature that will propel Gluster to exponential growth is the first feature mentioned (Continuous replication over WAN). It will make it a ubiquitous filesystem, and will most probably get it distributed on most linux distributions within some time. On Mar 8, 2011, at 7:01 AM, Ben Golub wrote: > SEEKING FEEDBACK ON ROADMAP > > Gluster is looking for feedback on its roadmap and priorities for 2011. > > In Q1, we have placed a heavy emphasis on packaging Gluster as a virtual > appliance, and have released a Gluster Virtual Storage Appliance for > VMWare, a Gluster Amazon Machine Image, and a Gluster Rightscale template. > > Our next point release will include a set of management and monitoring > tools. > > Following that, our internal priorities are: > > -Continuous Data Replication (over WAN) > > -Improved User Interface > > -CIFS/Active Directory Support > > -Object storage (unified file and object) > > -Geo-replication to Amazon S3 (unify public and private cloud) > > -Continuous Data Protection > > -REST management API's > > -Enhanced support for ISCSi SANs > > Are these the right priorities? How would you prioritize? > > (We will be scheduling an IRC conference later this month). > > -Ben Golub (Gluster CEO), Anand Babu (Gluster founder & CTO), and Hitesh > Chellani (Gluster Founder & VP) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
