WooHooo! Thanks, Glusteristas! Timing is quite fortuitous for us. hjm On 05/31/2012 09:33 AM, John Mark Walker wrote: > > Today, we're announcing the next generation of GlusterFS > <http://www.gluster.org/>, version 3.3. The release has been a year in > the making and marks several firsts: the first post-acquisition > release under Red Hat, our first major act as an openly-governed > project <http://www.gluster.org/roadmaps/>and our first foray beyond > NAS. We've also taken our first steps towards merging big data and > unstructured data storage, giving users and developers new ways of > managing their data scalability challenges. > > GlusterFS is an open source, fully distributed storage solution for > the world's ever-increasing volume of unstructured data. It is a > software-only, highly available, scale-out, centrally managed storage > pool that can be backed by POSIX filesystems that support extended > attributes, such as Ext3/4, XFS, BTRFS and many more. > > This release provides many of the most commonly requested features > including proactive self-healing, quorum enforcement, and granular > locking for self-healing, as well as many additional bug fixes and > enhancements. > > Some of the more noteworthy features include: > > * Unified File and Object storage -- Blending OpenStack's Object > Storage API <http://openstack.org/projects/storage/> with > GlusterFS provides simultaneous read and write access to data as > files or as objects. > * HDFS compatibility -- Gives Hadoop administrators the ability to > run MapReduce jobs on unstructured data on GlusterFS and access > the data with well-known tools and shell scripts. > * Proactive self-healing -- GlusterFS volumes will now automatically > restore file integrity after a replica recovers from failure. > * Granular locking -- Allows large files to be accessed even during > self-healing, a feature that is particularly important for VM images. > * Replication improvements -- With quorum enforcement you can be > confident that your data has been written in at least the > configured number of places before the file operation returns, > allowing a user-configurable adjustment to fault tolerance vs > performance. > > * > *Visit http://www.gluster.org <http://gluster.org/> to download. > Packages are available for most distributions, including Fedora, > Debian, RHEL, Ubuntu and CentOS. > > Get involved! Join us on #gluster on freenode, join our mailing list > <http://www.gluster.org/interact/mailinglists/>, 'like' our Facebook > page <http://facebook.com/GlusterInc>, follow us on Twitter > <http://twitter.com/glusterorg>, or check out our LinkedIn group > <http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=99784>. > > GlusterFS is an open source project sponsored by Red Hat > <http://www.redhat.com/>?, who uses it in its line of Red Hat Storage > <http://www.redhat.com/storage/> products. > > (this post published at > http://www.gluster.org/2012/05/introducing-glusterfs-3-3/ ) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users -- Harry Mangalam,Research Computing, OIT, Rm 225 MSTB, UC Irvine [mailcode 2225] Google Voice Multiplexer: (949) 478-4487 415 South Circle View Dr, Irvine, CA, 92697 [shipping] Lat/Long: (33.642025,-117.844414) [paste into Google Maps] -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20120531/c770f3f1/attachment.htm>
