Hello Gluster folks, gluster-block [1] release 0.2.1 is tagged, this release is more focused on bug fixing. All the documents are updated and packages made available at copr for fedora users [2] However for other distros one can easily compile it from source, find the install guide at [3] The source tar file and community provided packages will be soon made available at [4] Highlights: ------------- * Implement LRU cache to hold glfs objects, this makes the cli commands run fast. For example on a single node, create command takes ~1 sec now, while it was ~5 sec before. * Log severity level is configurable now. look for --log-level option of daemon and '/etc/sysconfig/gluster-blockd' Other Notable Fixes: --------------------------- * betterments in messages on failure * fix heap-buffer-overflow * prevent crashes when errMsg is not set * print human readable time-stamp in log files * improve logging at server side * handle SIGPIPE in daemon * update journal-data/block meta-data synchronously * reuse port 24006 (SO_REUSEADDR) on bind * add manual for gluster-blockd * updated ReadMe * and many more ... Read more at about gluster-block [5] Please report issues using [6] Also do let us know your feedback and help us get better :-) [1] https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block [2] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/pkalever/gluster-block/build/562504/ [3] https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block/blob/master/INSTALL [4] https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/gluster-block/ [5] https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block/blob/master/README.md [6] https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block/issues/new Thanks!