• MogileFS Roadmap
• Full featured perlbal plugin
• Documentation improvements
• Much more comprehensive tracker control/monitoring
• File checksumming
• JSON protocol overhaul
• Overhaul replication
• Out of system backups/replication
• File versioning

MogileFS Roadmap

High level overview of future plans/ideas. There is no set schedule and everything listed here is up for debate, refinement, addition, or could be dropped.

If you have feedback or anything you'd like to see here, please start a thread on the mailing list.

The below are in no particular order and will likely lack implementation details.

Full featured perlbal plugin

It's pretty hard to get off the ground with MogileFS. First you set up the server system, then your application needs to be tuned to look up and reproxy files. A perlbal plugin should be provided with the distribution which is able to directly serve files itself.

A preview of working code has been posted to the mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/mogile/browse_thread/thread/e3a33161d2da1d2a/00889fe6893fab21

Documentation improvements

Some or all of the wiki should be moved into POD docs in the code, and then the wiki generated off of that. Or at very least, a lot more of it needs to be documented.

Much more comprehensive tracker control/monitoring

A lot of the times we tell people to telnet to a tracker and run some commands. Instead, mogadm should be able to centrally control jobs, monitoring, etc. More of the tracker configuration should be moved out of config files and into the database.

File checksumming

Some manner of validating checksums at various stages of operation. Currently only file existence and length are checked by mogilefs itself.

JSON protocol overhaul

The protocol is flat and very manual. Replacing it with a JSON based protocol would allow a huge simplification protocol handling code. Many languages have JSON libraries available by default now, so it would also make it simpler to port.

Overhaul replication

Replication should be traceable, verifyable, and have a much better extension API. Currently "ran out of ideas for replicating blah" is often the most information you'll get.

Out of system backups/replication

It's possible to add flexibility for how mogile handles deletes and updloads. All changes could be replicated to a backup system, S3, etc.

File versioning

It should be possible for all overwritten files to be versioned via a history table. Making it innately possible to undo deletes or seek around in history, useful for a backup system.