In the past I used to test with RAM-disks, provided by /dev/ram*. Gluster uses extended attributes on the filesystem, that makes is not possible to use tmpfs. While thinking about improving some of the GlusterFS regression tests, I noticed that Fedora 20 (and possibly earlier versions too) does not provide the /dev/ram* devices anymore. I could not find the needed kernel module quickly, so I decided to look into the newer zram module.
With the release of RHEL-6.6 and CentOS-6.6, there are now glusterfs packages in the standard channels/repositories. Unfortunately, these are only the client-side packages (like glusterfs-fuse and glusterfs-api). Users that want to run a Gluster Server on a current RHEL or CentOS now have difficulties installing any of todays current version of the Gluster Community packages. The most prominent issue is that the glusterfs package from RHEL has a version of 3.
Even though GlusterFS 3.6.0 has been released last week, the 3.5 stable series continues to live on! The 2nd beta for GlusterFS 3.5.3 is now available for testing. Many bugs have been fixed since the 3.5.2 release, check the references below for details. Bug reporters are encouraged to verify the fixes, and we invite others to test this beta to check if there are no regressions. Please see the announcement email for further information.
The first beta for GlusterFS 3.5.3 is now available for download. Packages for different distributions will land on the download server over the next few days. When packages become available, the package maintainers will send a notification to the gluster-users mailinglist. With this beta release, we make it possible for bug reporters and testers to check if issues have indeed been fixed. All community members are invited to test and/or comment on this release.
NFS-Ganesha is a user-space NFS-server that is available in Fedora. It contains several plugins (FSAL, File System Abstraction Layer) for supporting different storage backends. Some of the more interesting are: VFS: a normal mounted filesystemGLUSTER: libgfapi based access to a Gluster VolumeCEPH: libcephfs based access to the filesystem on a Ceph Cluster Setting up a basic NFS-Ganesha server Exporting a mounted filesystem is pretty simple. Unfortunately this failed for me when running with the standard nfs-ganesha packages on a minimal Fedora 20 installation.
GlusterFS 3.5.2 has been announced some minutes ago. These are the changes that have been included in this release. Known issues are documented below too. Release Notes for GlusterFS 3.5.2This is mostly a bugfix release. The Release Notes for 3.5.0 and 3.5.1 contain a listing of all the new features that were added and bugs fixed.Bugs Fixed:1096020: NFS server crashes in _socket_read_vectored_request1100050: Can't write to quota enable folder1103050: nfs: reset command does not alter the result for nfs options earlier set1105891: features/gfid-access: stat on .
GlusterFS 3.5.2beta1 has just been released. This is the first beta to allow users to verify the fixes for the bugs that were reported. See the bug reports below for more details on how to test and confirm the fix (or not). This is a bugfix only release. The Release Notes for 3.5.0 and 3.5.1 contain a listing of all the new features that were added and bugs fixed. Bugs Fixed:1096020: NFS server crashes in _socket_read_vectored_request1100050: Can't write to quota enable folder1103050: nfs: reset command does not alter the result for nfs options earlier set 1105891: features/gfid-access: stat on .
When I'm enjoying the sun/wind/rain on the balcony, I tend to use my XO-1.75 for duties where most people would use a tablet. Reading/writing emails, browsing the internet, bug triaging or writing small fixes, release notes and all can be done fine on a small screen. My preference goes definitely towards physical keyboards, and less to their onscreen variants. Even when the keyboard is small, I like the typing on it much more than using a touchscreen for it.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 03:15:58AM -0700, Gluster Build System wrote: > > > SRC: http://bits.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/src/glusterfs-3.5.1.tar.gz > > This release is made off jenkins-release-73 Many thanks to everyone how tested the glusterfs-3.5.1 beta releases and gave feedback. There were no regressions reported compared to the 3.5.0 release. Many bugs have been fixed, and documentation for all new features in 3.5 should be included now. Thanks to all the reporters, developers and testers for improving the 3.
Reposting the email to the Gluster Users and Developers mailinglists. On Sat, 24 May, 2014 at 11:34:36PM -0700, Gluster Build System wrote: > > SRC: http://bits.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/src/glusterfs-3.5.1beta.tar.gzThis beta release is intended to verify the changes that should resolve the bugs listed below. We appreciate tests done by anyone. Please leave a comment in the respective bugreport with a short description of the success or failure. Visiting one of the bugreports is as easy as opening the bugzilla.