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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/4.1.0.md b/doc/release-notes/4.1.0.md index a7895297742..70db59280e3 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes/4.1.0.md +++ b/doc/release-notes/4.1.0.md @@ -48,6 +48,24 @@ Features are categorized into the following sections, GlusterD2 <TBD> +#### 2. Changes to gluster based smb.conf share management + +Previously Gluster used to delete the entire volume share section from smb.conf +either after volume is stopped or while disabling user.cifs/user.smb volume set +options. With this release those volume share sections, that were added by +samba hook scripts inside smb.conf, will not get removed post a volume stop or +on disabling user.cifs/user.smb volume set options. Instead we add the following +share specific smb.conf parameter to the end of corresponding volume share +section to make it unavailable for client access: + +``` +available = no +``` + +This will make sure that the additional smb.conf parameters configured +externally are retained. For more details on the above parameter search under +"available (S)" at [smb.conf(5)](https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/smb.conf.5.html) manual page. + ### Monitoring Various xlators are enhanced to provide additional metrics, that help in @@ -156,19 +174,7 @@ reads, in replicate based volumes. ### Standalone -#### 1. Support for cloud archival - -Cloud sync feature archives cold (infrequently accessed) data to a tertiary -storage service, thus providing space savings on primary Gluster volumes. - -Archived data is fetched on demand, by client mounts that request the data, from -the tertiary storage service. - -<Further notes on how to use and configure, TBD> - -**NOTE:** This feature is a tech preview, feedback welcome! - -#### 2. Thin arbiter quorum for 2-way replication +#### 1. Thin arbiter quorum for 2-way replication **NOTE:** This feature is available only with GlusterD2 @@ -179,7 +185,7 @@ the tertiary storage service. - Better would be to add all these to gluster docs and point to that here, with a short introduction to the feature, and its limitations at present. -#### 3. Automatically configure backup volfile servers in clients +#### 2. Automatically configure backup volfile servers in clients **NOTE:** This feature is available only with GlusterD2 @@ -190,12 +196,12 @@ the initial server used to fetch the volfile and mount is down. When using glusterd, this is achieved using the FUSE mount option `backup-volfile-servers`, and when using GlusterD2 this is done automatically. -#### 4. Python code base is now python3 compatible +#### 3. Python code base is now python3 compatible All python code in Gluster that are installed by the various packages are python3 compatible. -#### 5. (c/m)time equivalence across replicate and disperse subvolumes +#### 4. (c/m)time equivalence across replicate and disperse subvolumes Enabling the utime feature, enables Gluster to maintain consistent change and modification time stamps on files and directories across bricks. |