[Gluster-devel] Feature requests;

[Krishna Srinivas]

Gareth,

Your points are valid. Fixing the 2nd issue we need to think what can be done.
Could you open bugs to track the issues you are facing? so that we don't
forget it.

Thanks
Krishna

On Dec 29, 2007 3:50 PM, Gareth Bult <gareth at encryptec.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If these are in TLA, great .. (can someone let me know?) .. otherwise, it would be really great if we can get the following;
>
> a. Specific stripe change information to enable Stripe to work properly with AFR
> (currently AFR will apparently mirror every stripe during a heal, regardless of changes)
>
> b. The ability to heal an open file without closing it.
> (currently the only way to recover a xen instance running on an image on a glusterfs, following a node crash/restart, is to restart the xen instance)
> (this is a serious issue for xen users)
>
> c. Support for proper sparse-file copying when performing a heal operation on a sparse stripe.
> (at the moment the heal process does not appear to honor the sparse status and does way more copying than it needs to)
>
> Many thanks,
> Gareth.
>
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