[Gluster-devel] Questions about BDB storage translator

[Anand Avati]

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> 1) It's been stated that it doesn't support hard links and is not POSIX
> compliant due to fops not being supported.  Are these limitations in the
> current version, or are there implementation details that make adding these
> features not feasible (at least at this time)?


The current implementation has limitations to support hardlinks. We might
support it in the future. We are still not sure whether or not we will bring
in support for per-file attributes/ownership. BDB translator is meant to
store 'lot of small files' typically for serving off the web and other
special uses where ownership/permission is not of high concern.


2) Is there any interest in making the BDB translator more similar to the
> stripe translator in that it will only kick in if files match certain
> criteria, such as below 100k?  Ideally, the switch translator would be able
> to handle this, but in any case it would be nice to have a share that
> striped files over X MB and used BDB for files under Y KB (but more so if
> the BDB storage system was more POSIX compliant).


We plan to bring in a directory match option (with wildcards) for turning
on/off bdb on those volumes. This can be driven or changed by user feedback.


avati