GlusterFS 5.5 und 6.0 veröffentlicht

GlusterFS ist eine Open-Source Software zur Erstellung und Konfiguration eines verteilten / distributed Dateisystems. Die Client-Server Architektur besteht aus mehren Teilen und kann auf handelsüblicher Hardware erstellt werden.

Gluster 6.0 ist ein Major Release, dass umfangreiche Verbesserungen und Optimierungen mitbringt. Das Gluster 5.5 Release ist ein Bugfix Release das diverse Fehler korrigiert und Stabilität bringt.

Gluster 6.0 Highlights

• Several stability fixes addressing,
• coverity, clang-scan, address sanitizer and valgrind reported issues
• removal of unused and hence, deprecated code and features
• Client side inode garbage collection
• This release addresses one of the major concerns regarding FUSE mount process memory footprint, by introducing client side inode garbage collection
• See standalone section for more details
• Performance Improvements
• --auto-invalidation on FUSE mounts to leverage kernel page cache more effectively

Die umfangreichen Release Notes sind unter: https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/release-notes/6.0/

Gluster 5.5 Highlights

Major changes, features and limitations addressed in this release

None

Major issues

None

Bugs addressed

Bugs addressed since release-5.3 are listed below.

• #1684385: [ovirt-gluster] Rolling gluster upgrade from 3.12.5 to 5.3 led to shard on-disk xattrs disappearing
• #1684569: Upgrade from 4.1 and 5 is broken
• #1687249: Error handling in /usr/sbin/gluster-eventsapi produces IndexError: tuple index out of range
• #1687687: [geo-rep]: Checksum mismatch when 2×2 vols are converted to arbiter
• #1649054: glustereventsd does not start on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• #1651246: Failed to dispatch handler
• #1665145: Writes on Gluster 5 volumes fail with EIO when “cluster.consistent-metadata” is set
• #1669382: [ovirt-gluster] Fuse mount crashed while creating the preallocated image
• #1670307: api: bad GFAPI_4.1.6 block
• #1671217: core: move “dict is NULL” logs to DEBUG log level
• #1671556: glusterfs FUSE client crashing every few days with ‘Failed to dispatch handler’
• #1671611: Unable to delete directories that contain linkto files that point to itself.
• #1672248: quorum count not updated in nfs-server vol file
• #1672314: thin-arbiter: Check with thin-arbiter file before marking new entry change log
• #1673268: Fix timeouts so the tests pass on AWS
• #1678726: Integer Overflow possible in md-cache.c due to data type inconsistency
• #1679968: Upgrade from glusterfs 3.12 to gluster 4/5 broken

Quelle: https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/release-notes/5.5/