[Gluster-devel] Question on merging zfs snapshot support into the mainline glusterfs

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

Cool. Nice to know it is on the cards.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Rajesh Joseph <rjoseph at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri <
> pkarampu at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>       Is there a plan to come up with an interface for snapshot
>> functionality? For example, in handling different types of sockets in
>> gluster all we need to do is to specify which interface we want to use and
>> ib,network-socket,unix-domain sockets all implement the interface. The code
>> doesn't have to assume anything about underlying socket type. Do you guys
>> think it is a worthwhile effort to separate out the logic of interface and
>> the code which uses snapshots? I see quite a few of if (strcmp ("zfs",
>> fstype)) code which can all be removed if we do this. Giving btrfs
>> snapshots in future will be a breeze as well, this way? All we need to do
>> is implementing snapshot interface using btrfs snapshot commands. I am not
>> talking about this patch per se. Just wanted to seek your inputs about
>> future plans for ease of maintaining the feature.
>>
>
> As I said in my previous mail this is in plan and we will be doing it. But
> due to other priorities this was not taken in yet.
>
>
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>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Atin Mukherjee <amukherj at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 06/21/2016 11:41 AM, Rajesh Joseph wrote:
>>> > What kind of locking issues you see? If you can provide some more
>>> > information I can be able to help you.
>>>
>>> That's related to stale lock issues on GlusterD which are there in 3.6.1
>>> since the fixes landed in the branch post 3.6.1. I have already provided
>>> the workaround/way to fix them [1]
>>>
>>> [1]
>>>
>>> http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-June/thread.html#26995
>>>
>>> ~Atin
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Pranith
>>
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Pranith
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