[Gluster-devel] gluster 3.4 worm feature

Anand Babu Periasamy abperiasamy at gmail.com
Mon Mar 18 05:08:31 UTC 2013


It would defeat the purpose of WORM. WORM should guarantee no
modifications to already written content.
-ab

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/14/2013 06:36 PM, Tobias Winter wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> we were hoping to be able to use the upcoming worm feature for a backup
>> volume, however I again read the wiki page describing it and found the
>> following:
>>
>> With a volume converted to WORM, the changes are as follows:
>>   * Truncation, Deletion wont be supported
>>
>> So there will be no way to delete files?
>>
>
> If you think it would be helpful, we can make this an optional behaviour.
> Enabling an option "allow-delete" could pass through deletes on to the next
> translator.
>
> -Vijay
>
>
>
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