[Gluster-devel] Snapshot Scheduler

[Niels de Vos]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 12:37:17AM +0530, Avra Sengupta wrote:
> Thanks Joe for the feedback. We are aware of the following issue, and we
> will try and address this by going for a more generic approach, which will
> not have platform dependencies.

I'm mostly in favour of using the standard functionalities that other
components already provide. Use systemd-timers when available, and cron
as fallback would have my preference. Not sure how much my opinion
counts, but I hope you'll take it into consideration. Writing a bug-free
scheduler from scratch is difficult :-)

Niels


> 
> On 07/12/2016 11:59 PM, Joe Julian wrote:
> > cron isn't installed by default on Arch rather scheduling is done by
> > systemd timers. We might want to consider using systemd.timer for
> > systemd distros and crontab for legacy distros.
> > 
> > 
> > On 07/08/2016 03:01 AM, Avra Sengupta wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Snaphsots in gluster have a scheduler, which relies heavily on
> > > crontab, and the shared storage. I would like people using this
> > > scheduler, or for people to use this scheduler, and provide us
> > > feedback on it's experience. We are looking for feedback on ease of
> > > use, complexity of features, additional feature support etc.
> > > 
> > > It will help us in deciding if we need to revamp the existing
> > > scheduler, or maybe rethink relying on crontab and re-writing our
> > > own, thus providing us more flexibility. Thanks.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Avra
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