[sheepdog] [sheepdog-users] IRC meeting at Friday, 2013.6.7

[MORITA Kazutaka]

At Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:05:42 +0800,
Liu Yuan wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>    We are going to meet up in IRC channel, #sheepdog at freenode, to
> have a live discussion. The topics would be
> 
>  - what the current developers are doing and plans to do
>  - stuff about the new organization
>  - anything you suggests and are interested
> 
> The meeting time is supposed be at 16:00 CST China time this Friday,
> that would be 17:00 for Japan, 9:00 for Italy.
> 
> Anyone is free to join the meeting, showing up with a topic or a
> question, or just sitting quiet to see what is going on.
> 
> For suggesting any topics, please directly reply to this email. And for
> developers that want to document what he is doing/planning to do, please
> replies in here too. Then before the meeting, we can have do a
> preparation note each other.

My plan in the near future:

 - Rebase the object reclaim patches.
   http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/sheepdog/2013-May/009503.html

 - Remove a master completely from cluster drivers and simplify the
   join process.

 - Create a benchmark script which can test various scenarios
   (e.g. I/O performance during object recovery). This is necessary to
   detect performance degradation.

In longer term:

 - Refactor recovery.c to improve I/O performance during object
   recovery.

 - Add support for rejoining to cluster after a timeout.

 - Make shepherd a distributed system to remove a SPOF.

 - Add support for hierarchical zones to use Sheepdog in multiple
   regions.

Thanks,

Kazutaka