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authorDustin Black <dblack@redhat.com>2016-05-25 16:11:00 -0400
committerNiels de Vos <ndevos@redhat.com>2016-05-31 12:25:53 -0700
commitffcd1e74c2ede8fedfd176b50b62a9e31ba9a08b (patch)
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parent6afe7fb246ece2ee2c10d98fdbd4d331ef43a56b (diff)
Added release notes for the SEEK feature
Change-Id: I072942160533e71c57cd1632f5c7b7539751b609 BUG: 1317278 Signed-off-by: Dustin Black <dblack@redhat.com> Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/14537 Smoke: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com> NetBSD-regression: NetBSD Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.org> Reviewed-by: Niels de Vos <ndevos@redhat.com> CentOS-regression: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com>
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### FIXME: insert more useful release notes here
+#### SEEK
+*Notes for users:* All modern filesystems support SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE with the lseek() systemcall. This improves performance when reading sparse files. GlusterFS now supports the SEEK operation as well. Linux kernel 4.5 comes with an improved FUSE module where lseek() can be used. QEMU can now detect holes in VM images when using the Gluster-block driver.
+*Limitations:* The deprecated stripe functionality has not been extended with SEEK. SEEK for sharding has not been implemented yet, and is expected to follow later in a 3.8 update (bug 1301647). NFS-Ganesha will support SEEK over NFSv4 in the near future, posisbly with the upcoming nfs-ganesha 2.4.
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## Bugs addressed
A total of 1685 (FIXME) patches has been sent, addressing 1154 (FIXME) bugs: