[Gluster-devel] few queries regarding file snapshot feature in gluster

Prasanna Kumar Kalever pkalever at redhat.com
Mon Dec 21 12:46:50 UTC 2015


On Monday, December 21, 2015 5:44:24 PM, Humble Devassy Chirammal Wrote:
> Hi Prasanna,
> 
> >I am really thankful if some one gives more details about qemu-block
> xlator,
> I don't see enough documentation regarding this :(
> >
> Have you gone through
> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/doc/developer-guide/bd-xlator.md
> ? It has enough pointers to the bd xlator.

Hi Humble,
I am referring to qemu-block xlator here. I have seen this in my local repo

Thanks,
-Prasanna

> 
> --Humble
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Prasanna Kumar Kalever <pkalever at redhat.com
> > wrote:
> 
> > Hi Team,
> >
> > I have few queries regarding file snapshot feature in gluster
> >
> > what are the limitations of Block device translator and qemu-block
> > translator ?
> > Are we using them some where ?
> > Do we have plans to improve them ?
> > Or someone have a design to implement file snapshot feature ?
> >
> > Are we just waiting till btrfs or zfs are fully stable ?
> >
> > I am really thankful if some one gives more details about qemu-block
> > xlator,
> > I don't see enough documentation regarding this :(
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Prasanna ​
> >
> >
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