On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 1:12 AM, Amye Scavarda <amye@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What a busy month this past month for Gluster! > We’ve got updates from SCaLE, FOSDEM, our Developer Gatherings in > Brno, DevConf, noteworthy threads from the mailing lists, and upcoming > events. > This post is also available on the Gluster blog: > http://blog.gluster.org/2016/02/gluster-community-newsletter-february-2015/ > > From SCaLE: > - Richard Wareing gave a talk at the Southern California Linux Expo > about Scaling Gluster at Facebook. More at > https://blog.gluster.org/2016/01/scaling-glusterfs-facebook/ > > From FOSDEM: > Humble and Kaushal have posted thoughts on FOSDEM > http://website-humblec.rhcloud.com/me-fosdem-2016/ > https://kshlm.in/fosdem16/ > > From Developer Gatherings: > We had a group of developers gather in Brno ahead of DevConf to > discuss a number of different Gluster related things. > Highlights were: > GD2 with Kaushal - https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-gd2-kaushal We discussed volgen for GD2 in this meeting. I've put up a summary of the discussion and outcomes in the etherpad. I'll be putting up the same as a design spec into glusterfs-spec soon and keep it updated as we progress. > Heketi & Eventing with Luis - https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-heketi > DHT2 with Venky- https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-4.0-dht2 > > From DevConf > Ceph vs Gluster vs Swift: Similarities and Differences > https://devconfcz2016.sched.org/event/5lze/ceph-vs-gluster-vs-swift-similarities-and-differences > Prashanth Pai, Thiago da Silva > > Automated GlusterFS Volume Management with Heketi > https://devconfcz2016.sched.org/event/5m0P/automated-glusterfs-volume-management-with- > heketi - Luis Pabon > NFS-Ganesha and Distributed Storage Systems - > https://devconfcz2016.sched.org/event/5m15/nfs-ganesha-and-distributed-storage-systems > - Kaleb S. Keithley > > Build your own Scale-Out Storage with Gluster > https://devconfcz2016.sched.org/event/5m1X/build-your-own-scale-out-storage-with-gluster > 0 Niels de Vos > > Freak show (#2): CTDB -- Scaling The Aliens Back To Outer Space > https://devconfcz2016.sched.org/event/5m1l/freak-show-2-ctdb-scaling-the-aliens-back-to-outer-space > Günther Deschner, Michael Adam > > oVirt and Gluster Hyperconvergence > https://devconfcz2016.sched.org/event/5m20/ovirt-and-gluster-hyperconvergence > Ramesh Nachimuthu > > Improvements in gluster for virtualization usecase > https://devconfcz2016.sched.org/event/5m1p/improvements-in-gluster-for-virtualization-usecase > Prasanna Kumar Kalever > > Test Automation and CI using DiSTAF > https://devconfcz2016.sched.org/event/5m1U/test-automation-and-ci-using-distaf > Vishwanath Bhat > Gluster Developer Gatherings at Brno before DevConf > > > Noteworthy threads: > Soumya Koduri investigates the issue of memory leaks in GlusterFS FUSE > client and suggests a re-run after application of a few specific > patches. More at > <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-January/024775.html>. > Oleksandr reported that it did not make an impact; Xavier confirmed a > similar issue with 3.7.6 release > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-January/024932.html>). > The thread (at <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-January/thread.html#24775>) > is a good read around the topic of understanding how to work through > diagnosis and fixes of memory leaks. > > Sachidananda provided an update > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-January/024790.html) > about the gdeploy v2.0 including design changes > (<https://github.com/gluster/gdeploy/blob/master/doc/gdeploy-2) to > enable modularity and separation of core functionality into > self-contained unit. > > Kyle Harris reported an issue around high I/O and processor > utilization (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-January/024811.html>). > Ravishankar, Krutika and Pranith worked with the reporter to identify > specific ways to address the topic. Pranith indicated that a 3.7.7 > release is coming up soonest > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-January/024836.html>) > > A query was raised about the 3.6.8 release notes > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-January/024820.html>) > and a suggestion to include them at > <http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/> Niels responded > stating that the notes should be part of the repository at > <https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/tree/release-3.6/doc/release-notes> > and added the release manager to provide additional detail > > Vijay provided an update around the changes being discussed for 3.8 > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-January/024828.html>). > The maintainers feel it is worthwhile to include some of the key > features for 4.0 eg. NSR, dht2, glusterd2.0 as experimental in the > release; ensure a better component coverage for tests in distaf; add a > forward compatibility section to all the feature pages proposed for > 3.8 in order to facilitate review for the Gluster.next features. In > the same mail Vijay proposed that Niels de Vos would be the maintainer > for the 3.8 release. And lastly, the projected GA date for 3.8 is now > set to end-May or, early-June 2016. > > Ramesh Nachimuthu linked to a blog around designing HyperConverged > Infrastructure using oVirt 3.6 and Gluster 3.7.6 > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-January/024849.html>). > More at <http://blogs-ramesh.blogspot.in/2016/01/ovirt-and-gluster-hyperconvergence.html> > > Lindsay Mathieson brought up the topic of 'File Corruption when adding > bricks to live replica volumes' > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-January/024920.html>). > Further along the discussion > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-January/025010.html>) > Krutika volunteered to write in detail about the specifics of the heal > activity and client+server side heal design. > > A discussion around heal processes > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-January/025042.html>) > led to a description of a large deployments that consists of over 1000 > clients. Again, this is a thread where debugging and diagnosis of > GlusterFS issues in large deployments are highlighted along with the > typical workload. > > DHT2: > (<http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-February/048371.html>) > A new presentation from Shyam was added around developments in DHT2. > > ++ gluster-devel ++ > > Pranith and Joseph discuss > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-January/048006.html>) > the issue where using ctime/mtime causes confusion for application > software especially for backup which identifies the differences in the > values and attempts to suggest remedies. > > Ravishankar introduced a proposal > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-January/047975.html>) > around a throttling translator on the server side to regulate FOPS. He > believes that it will address frequently posted issues around AFR, > Self-Heal consuming high CPU and causing resource starvation. The > proposal plans to use the Token Bucket Filter algorithm (also used by > bitrot) to regulate the check-sum calculation. > > Richard Wareing pointed > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-January/047964.html>) > to a bug report <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301401> > "Mis-behaving brick clients (gNFSd, FUSE, gfAPI) can cause cluster > instability and eventual complete unavailability due to failures in > releasing entry/inode locks in a timely manner". The locks revocation > feature was part of his talk at SCaLE14x > > Raghavendra Talur has initiated a thread > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-January/thread.html#47941>) > on tips and tricks which can be collated and become an useful resource > for new developers contributing to GlusterFS. Vijay added specifics > from his work flow > <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-January/048000.html> > and others provided insights. > > Niels de Vos picks up the conversation > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-January/047903.html>) > around closing bug reports filed against a mainline version. He > proposed that the Bug Report Life Cycle policy could be defined and > updated. In addition to that, the script/bugzilla query used to > retrieve the bugs could be stored in the release-tools repository, to > be run after each release. > > As a lead to his talk at FOSDEM on "Gluster Roadmap, Recent > Improvements and Upcoming Features", Niels de Vos sought > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-January/047862.html>) > short description from the feature owners/developers to be able to > include in his slide deck. > > Avra asked for inputs > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-January/047841.html>) > on a possible name for 'New Style Replication' (or, NSR) to make it > less generic and more representative of the fundamental design idea. > > Kaleb provided an update > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-January/047808.html>) > on Python 3.5 being approved for Fedora 24 and suggested that the > requirement for Python 2 be looked into and discussed. Prashant > suggested usage > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-January/047823.html>) > of "six" module to help maintain code that will run on both Python 2 > and Python 3. > > Humble responded > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-January/047956.html>) > that the search feature of documentation and readthedocs.org was known > to be broken due to rearrangement of the directory structures of > 'features' and 'feature planning' and was expected to be addressed > soon. > > ++ gluster-infra ++ > > Raghavendra Talur informed > <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-infra/2016-January/001790.html> > about enabling comment based triggers on the Jenkins instance > > Michael Scherer informed about a Gerrit outage > <https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-infra/2016-January/001785.html> > in order to fix issues around index of the Lucene datastore used by > Gerrit. Later on he was happy to note that the time taken was lesser > than estimated and things worked according to plan. > > In a thread around the possibility of enabling individual accounts (on > Jenkins) for maintainers, Michael brought up a topic of governance > (<https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-infra/2016-January/001766.html>) > around who can be considered a 'contributor' and is thus entitled to > such privileges. He highlights the need for setting clear qualifying > criteria which can then use the FreeIPA infrastructure available to > access and privilege controls. > > > Upcoming events > FAST - Feb 22 - 25 <https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast16> > Vault - April 20-21 <http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/vault> > > -- > Hey, you made it this far! Want to add things to next month's > newsletter? 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