[Gluster-devel] gluster 3.4 worm feature

[Anand Babu Periasamy]

Then it is fine.
-ab

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/18/2013 10:38 AM, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote:
>>
>> It would defeat the purpose of WORM. WORM should guarantee no
>> modifications to already written content.
>
>
> Implementations where modifications are not allowed but deletions by
> authorized administrators are allowed do exist today. This policy would be
> optional and the default behaviour would be to allow no deletions.
>
> -Vijay
>
>
>> -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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