Hello Gluster folks,
We are happy to announce the release of gluster-block [1] v0.3. Please
find highlights and notable fixes which went in this release at [2].
The packages are made available at copr for Fedora users [3]. For
other distributions, one can easily compile it from source. Details
about installation can be found in the easy install guide at [4]. The
source tarball and community provided packages will be available soon
at [5].
The next release v0.4 is planned to have some exciting features and
improvements. Here is a potential list of features in v0.4:
* Replace node feature to substitute a faulty node.
* Support for Snapshots
* Ability to re-size existing block devices
* Performance improvements (IO and management)
* Containerized gluster-block and more!
gluster-block is now part of fedora package collection (f26), an
updated package with release version v0.3 will be soon made available.
Please report any issues that you observe using [6].
We look forward to your feedback to help us get better!
[1] https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block
[2] https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block/blob/master/NEWS
[3] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/pkalever/gluster-block/build/637643/
[4] https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block/blob/master/INSTALL
[5] https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/gluster-block/
[6] https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block/issues/new
Thanks!
