WHATSNEW: mention new vfs_glusterfs_fuse module

Guenther

Signed-off-by: Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
Autobuild-User(v4-10-test): Karolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date(v4-10-test): Wed Mar  6 14:00:05 UTC 2019 on sn-devel-144

diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
index 875d168e7493129c0f33d221dfa8a819e1c93552..f2eff485c8ca96de0504db97f7d399b8cc3f00a3 100644 (file)
--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
+++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
@@ -194,6 +194,19 @@ DC that had SMBv1 disabled. SMBv2 support has now been added for samba-tool.
 The affected commands are 'samba-tool domain backup|rename' and the
 'samba-tool gpo' set of commands. Refer also bug #13676.
 
+New glusterfs_fuse VFS module
+-----------------------------
+
+The new vfs_glusterfs_fuse module improves performance when Samba
+accesses a glusterfs volume mounted via FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace
+as part of the Linux kernel). It achieves that by leveraging a
+mechanism to retrieve the appropriate case of filenames by querying a
+specific extended attribute in the filesystem. No extra configuration
+is required to use this module, only glusterfs_fuse needs to be set in
+the "vfs objects" parameter. Further details can be found in the
+vfs_glusterfs_fuse(8) manpage. This new vfs_glusterfs_fuse module does
+not replace the existing vfs_glusterfs module, it just provides an
+additional, alternative mechanism to access a Gluster volume.
 
 REMOVED FEATURES
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