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[Gluster-devel] Confusion about 1.3pre5*
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Steffen Grunewald |
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[Gluster-devel] Confusion about 1.3pre5* |
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Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:12:05 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
I'm confused.
I've been watching glusterfs development for quite a while now, and really
enjoyed its rapid development.
I even considered to install glusterfs in a production environment. The
1.3 pre-releases showed a trend towards stabilization, and there were only
a few changes to mainline--2.4 (which is still being announced as the main
branch on the download.php page).
Then, all of a sudden, stat-prefetch was removed, io-threads still seem to
be unstable, and there's even a new feature (self-heal) that would have better
fitted into the 1.4 roadmap, IMHO that introduced a major code and API change
into a release candidate (I'd have expected a feature freeze at this point,
and fixes being made to the 2.4 branch while preparing the next devel
release in 2.5 - or is there even a 2.6 yet?).
The documentation in the Wiki doesn't refer to release versions nor branch
versions, so I don't know whether I can still live without self-healing
and namespace volumes, I don't know what the requirements would be for such
a namespace volume (some info started to trickle through this list: yes,
I'd need lots of inodes... still I don't know where to place it - would it
interfere with the data volume it definitely would have to share the same
disk with? what about performance penalties then?)...
I got the impression that while the target was to release on June 30, the
current development of glusterfs is adding more instability (and perhaps
design flaws?).
Perhaps I only need a few days off. Perhaps the glusterfs developers do.
I'm not sure. See you in four weeks' time...
Cheers,
Steffen
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