Hello,
I'm considering the following ideas for the next couple of Bacula releases,
and would like your ideas.
1. Release version 2.0.4 in the next week or two with a couple more bug fixes.
2. Release either version 2.0.5 or more likely version 2.2.0 within 4-8 weeks,
targeting 6 weeks.
Version 2.2.0, would be essentially the current Bacula trunk, which has the
following major changes from the 2.0.x stream:
1. The new SQL attribute insertion code, which runs significantly faster on
PostgreSQL, and for multiple simultaneous jobs runs with much less database
locking.
2. The red/black in memory restore code, which in my tests on restoring 800K+
files, ran over 500 times as fast as the current code.
3. Some important new communications protocols that support bat.
4. A first cut of bat that "roughly" implements the same features as the
gnome-console. This is not much, but it does give a base for further
incremental improvements, and will permit easier user participation in the
development.
5. The additional features that Eric has already added (Scratch pool, ...).
6. Possibly a few additional features depending on what the developers respond
to this email.
Comments?
Regards,
Kern
