SaunaFS 5.8.0

[uristdwarf]

Hello everyone!

SaunaFS 5.8.0 is now available. It includes many small fixes and several major upgrades. One of the key improvements is the new chunkserver-side locking and I/O priority for the chunkserver by @dmga44. The chunkserver-side locking should significantly improve reading and writing of small files, while the new chunkserver option, IO_PRIORITY_MODE, allows you to balance read/write operations by switching from "FIFO" to "SWITCH".

Another addition is the introduction of negative caching by @ZaRdEr15, which speeds up lookups for files that do not exist.

Progress on TLS implementation is ongoing, but it remains experimental still. We expect it to become production-ready soon.

There are also numerous fixes, mostly targeting the testing suite.

Opencloud

We are working with the Opencloud team to provide integration with Opencloud deployments. This is still in the early stages, but one of the features currently being developed is an inotify-based filesystem notifier to help Opencloud detect file changes. We will share more updates on this soon.

RPM packages for clients

Another important update, contributed by me and @ralcolea, is that you can now compile RPM packages for the SaunaFS client using CPack. In the long term, we aim to provide all packages (both DEB and RPM) via CPack. For now, this allows you to build client packages on RPM-based systems using CMake/CPack. We will also provide client packages for EPEL and Rocky Linux 8/9/10 in our repositories.

Farewell from me

I will be stepping down from maintaining SaunaFS and leaving Leil Storage to pursue new opportunities. It has been a privilege to help bring SaunaFS to where it is today, and I believe it will continue to grow beyond expectations. Thank you all for reporting bugs, raising issues, and asking for help!

I will continue maintaining the Debian packages for SaunaFS for some time and be active in Slack and other chats, so I won’t disappear entirely.

A big announcement on April 1st (no joke)

We will have some major announcements on April 1st and in the coming months. Stay tuned!

Thanks,
The Leil Storage Team & Urmas Rist

P.S: For all open source matters, you can contact @rolysr temporarily.

[hradec]

@uristdwarf , I'm sorry to hear you're leaving the project. It was a pleasure to talk to you with my URaft issues and you have been so helpful that kept me persisting in using SaunaFS as a cluster solution. It's a sad day to see you parting, but I hope you have a brighter future in front of you, with less people like me just having issues with things because they are trying to use it in a way it wasn't designed for! LoL!!
cya around, hopefully!
-H