The v0.19 release is finally here. The focus this past cycle was on
stability and the disk format, and things have improved greatly in that
area. Our plan is to make any future disk format changes roll forward, so
that users wonât need to rebuild their file systems. The protocol has
also grown feature bits that so it is at least possible to make protocol
changes transparent; whether we do so or not will depend on the severity
of the change and cost of maintaining compatibility.
Overall, things are looking good. If you've been standing on the
sidelines waiting for something more stable to test, now is a good time to
try things out. There are some lingering OSD performance problems (see
below), and we are still a long ways off from something we would recommend
for use in a production environment, but otherwise this release is looking
pretty good for evaluation purposes.
Changes since v0.18 include:
* Stabilized disk format, with feature bits
* Wire protocol feature bits
* structure encoding versioning throughout
* msgr: code simplification, cleanup, bug fixes
* truncation fixes
* debian: packaging improvements
* rados: pool deletion, misc fixes
* osd: recovery fixes, journaling fixes
* lots of bug fixes (osd, mds, client)
On the kernel client side of things,
* Support for Kerberos-like âcephxâ authentication
* sync/directio read/write bug fixes (multiple client access to a
single file)
* writeback congestion control
* mds ops interruptible (with control-c)
* lots of code cleanup
* lots of bug fixes
Notably, there are major revisions underway with the way the storage
daemon cosd interacts with btrfs, and these are sufficiently intrusive and
untested that they did not make it into this release. They should be in
v0.20. That means that OSD performance is still not great in v0.19. (So
far performance with the new code is much much better.)
The primary focus areas for v0.20 will be
* OSD performance and btrfs interface changes
* Clustered MDS
Relevant URLs:
* Direct download at http://ceph.newdream.net/download/ceph-0.19.tar.gz
* For Debian packages see http://ceph.newdream.net/wiki/Debian
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