Gluster users - Mar 2011 - Seeking Feedback on Gluster Development Priorities/Roadmap

SEEKING FEEDBACK ON ROADMAP

Gluster is looking for feedback on its roadmap and priorities for 2011.

In Q1, we have placed a heavy emphasis on packaging Gluster as a virtual
appliance, and have released a Gluster Virtual Storage Appliance for
VMWare, a Gluster Amazon Machine Image, and a Gluster Rightscale template.

Our next point release will include a set of management and monitoring
tools.

Following that, our internal priorities are:

-Continuous Data Replication (over WAN)

-Improved User Interface

-CIFS/Active Directory Support

-Object storage  (unified file and object)

-Geo-replication to Amazon S3 (unify public and private cloud)

-Continuous Data Protection

-REST management API's

-Enhanced support for ISCSi SANs

Are these the right priorities? How would you prioritize?

(We will be scheduling an IRC conference later this month).

-Ben Golub (Gluster CEO), Anand Babu (Gluster founder & CTO), and Hitesh
Chellani (Gluster Founder & VP)

Performance and Disk Pools. Those are number ONE for me.

Todd

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Ben Golub <ben at gluster.com>
wrote:
> SEEKING FEEDBACK ON ROADMAP
>
> Gluster is looking for feedback on its roadmap and priorities for 2011.
>
> In Q1, we have placed a heavy emphasis on packaging Gluster as a virtual
> appliance, and have released a Gluster Virtual Storage Appliance for
> VMWare, a Gluster Amazon Machine Image, and a Gluster Rightscale template.
>
> Our next point release will include a set of management and monitoring
> tools.
>
> Following that, our internal priorities are:
>
> -Continuous Data Replication (over WAN)
>
> -Improved User Interface
>
> -CIFS/Active Directory Support
>
> -Object storage ?(unified file and object)
>
> -Geo-replication to Amazon S3 (unify public and private cloud)
>
> -Continuous Data Protection
>
> -REST management API's
>
> -Enhanced support for ISCSi SANs
>
> Are these the right priorities? How would you prioritize?
>
> (We will be scheduling an IRC conference later this month).
>
> -Ben Golub (Gluster CEO), Anand Babu (Gluster founder & CTO), and
Hitesh
> Chellani (Gluster Founder & VP)
>
>
>
>
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>

How about the _basics_ of such a fs? Create an answer to the still unresolved
question: What files are currently not in-sync?
>From the very first day of glusterfs there is no answer to this fundamental
question for the user. No way to monitor the real state of a replicating fs up
to the current day.

-- 
Regards,
Stephan

I think the number 1 feature that will propel Gluster to exponential growth is
the first feature mentioned (Continuous replication over WAN). It will make it a
ubiquitous filesystem, and will most probably get it distributed on most linux
distributions within some time.


On Mar 8, 2011, at 7:01 AM, Ben Golub wrote:
> SEEKING FEEDBACK ON ROADMAP
> 
> Gluster is looking for feedback on its roadmap and priorities for 2011.
> 
> In Q1, we have placed a heavy emphasis on packaging Gluster as a virtual
> appliance, and have released a Gluster Virtual Storage Appliance for
> VMWare, a Gluster Amazon Machine Image, and a Gluster Rightscale template.
> 
> Our next point release will include a set of management and monitoring
> tools.
> 
> Following that, our internal priorities are:
> 
> -Continuous Data Replication (over WAN)
> 
> -Improved User Interface
> 
> -CIFS/Active Directory Support
> 
> -Object storage  (unified file and object)
> 
> -Geo-replication to Amazon S3 (unify public and private cloud)
> 
> -Continuous Data Protection
> 
> -REST management API's
> 
> -Enhanced support for ISCSi SANs
> 
> Are these the right priorities? How would you prioritize?
> 
> (We will be scheduling an IRC conference later this month).
> 
> -Ben Golub (Gluster CEO), Anand Babu (Gluster founder & CTO), and
Hitesh
> Chellani (Gluster Founder & VP)
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Gluster-users mailing list
> Gluster-users at gluster.org
> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users

hi ben,

it's good to be consulted!  my take on priorities would be:
0/ as per stephens email - basic syncing tools.  right now, i'm unsure (see
1) how often to do a "find sync" to "heal" the fs.  the
baseline fs needs to
be more robust.  it feels very delicate and i often find myself needing to
restart a client/glusterd.
1/ documentation.  gluster looks great - but there's a lack of good solid
docs.  and lots of old legacy / conflicting documentation out there too.
 this is a barrier for new users (ie, me) to try it out.
2/ improved UI. by this, do you mean reporting/migration tools?  if so, yes.
3/ gNFS NLM locking

i'd concentrate on getting whats already there working better & faster
than
adding new features.

looking forward to irc conference.

regards,

paul


Following that, our internal priorities are:
>
> -Continuous Data Replication (over WAN)
> -Improved User Interface
> -CIFS/Active Directory Support
> -Object storage  (unified file and object)
> -Geo-replication to Amazon S3 (unify public and private cloud)
> -Continuous Data Protection
> -REST management API's
> -Enhanced support for ISCSi SANs
>
> Are these the right priorities? How would you prioritize?
>

For me these are top critical items:

1) Stability
2) A way of deleting nodes without losing files (adequate space in remaining
  nodes permitting)
3) Performance
4) Documentation

Bill Sebok      Computer Software Manager, Univ. of Maryland, Astronomy
	Internet: wls at astro.umd.edu	URL: http://furo.astro.umd.edu/