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 first scheduling and the
load-informed scheduling, geographic-sensed scheduling
for virtual server via IP tunneling.
- 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.
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Created on: 1998/5/28