[Bugs] [Bug 1263751] New: [RFE] configurable labels/names for snapshots exposed in .snaps

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            Bug ID: 1263751
           Summary: [RFE] configurable labels/names for snapshots exposed
                    in .snaps
           Product: GlusterFS
           Version: mainline
         Component: snapshot
          Assignee: bugs at gluster.org
          Reporter: aneil2 at gmu.edu
                CC: bugs at gluster.org, gluster-bugs at redhat.com



Description of problem:
Currently snapshots are created with a name and an optional timestamp. There is
no facility to rename snapshots as far as I can see.  

As is providing self service restore to users via uss is hard becuase the users
need to parse the snap shot time stamp to locate the specific snapshot they
want amongst a list of very similar names.

If the snap shots had associated lables that could be changed and these lables
were exposed in .snaps, a flexible system could be set up ( similar to the
timeslider autosnap feature in zfs).

if snapshots are scheduled regularly, for example:

frequent     snapshots every 15 mins, keeping 4 snapshots
hourly         snapshots every hour, keeping 24 snapshots
daily         snapshots every day, keeping 31 snapshots
weekly         snapshots every week, keeping 7 snapshots
monthly         snapshots every month, keeping 12 snapshots.

They could have labels like:  "Now", "Fifteen Minutes Ago",  "Thirty Minutes
Ago", "Sunday", "Last Week" etc.

As the labels are able to be changed, they can be rotated as necessary.


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