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TODO
The virtual server codes' ability to survive and be successful
will greatly depend upon the contributions of others. You do
not have to know how to code to contribute, although it does
help, you can write the documents, promote the virtual server,
and so on. The current TODO list is:
- Write documents for the Linux Virtual Server, and promote
the Linux Virtual Server.
- More load-balancing algorithms need to be studied and added,
in order to meet more different requirements, such as the
fastest response rate scheduling and the load-informed
scheduling, geographic-sensed scheduling for virtual server
via IP tunneling.
- Investigate effective state synchronization from the primary
load balancer to the backup, so that the backup load balancer
can continue serve most of established requests when the
primary fails and the backup takes over.
- Explore content-based scheduling inside the kernel.
- Continue to study technologies in IPv4 to implement virtual
server, such as broadcasting or multicasting technology.
- Understand the difference between IPv4 and IPv6, and study how
to implement virtual server in IPv6.
- Understand the behavior of the load balancer; Do some
performance evaluations to see the real maximum throughput of
a load balancer, which scheduling algorithms are good for
different situations.
- Make it easy to setup and administrate virtual server. The
"mon", "fake" and the CODA distributed
fault-tolerant file system to be well integrated in the
system.
- Port some code of Linux Virtual Server to Paul Russell's Netfilter
framework, which is going to merge firewalling, masquerading,
NAT, redirect and load balancing together. (Netfilter is much
beyond my former vision was that IP Masquerading, IP
NAT and Virtual Server should be merged
together.)
- Build some handy tools to facilitate developing cluster-aware
applications.
If you have good ideas to improve Linux Virtual Server, please send
them to The LVS
Mailing List or to me,
they will be added in the TODO list.
Übersetzung durch Stefan M. Dohn Original Text von Wensong
Geschrieben am: 2002/10/15
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