[Gluster-devel] Added specs for filesnapshots based on reflinks

[Prasanna Kumar Kalever]

On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 3:55:52 PM, Niels de Vos wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 04:00:12AM -0400, Prasanna Kumar Kalever wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Regarding existing file snapshot:
> > --------------------------------
> > Currently we have qemu-block xlator which helps in creating a file based
> > snapshots,
> > the biggest limitation about this feature is that, it allows creation of
> > snapshots
> > only for qcow2 file types (QEMU specific).
> > 
> > what about other VM image formats (say VMDK, VDI ...)?
> > what about general file formats (txt, docx, md ... another 10000)?
> > 
> > 
> > Improvement:
> > ------------
> > Suggested a feature that allows you to take a snapshot on any kind of file
> > with the
> > help of reflinks.
> > 
> > Here is the link to specs page (which also has a POC);
> > https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs-specs/compare/master...pkalever:master
> > 
> > I need all of your blessings to move this into action.
> 
> We do not use GitHub pull requests for the glusterfs-specs repository.
> See the main README for sending your change to Gerrit.
> 
> I've left some comments in the GitHub patch. It's tricky to find where
> the comments are, but I think this link should do it:
> 
>   https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs-specs/commit/eb00fae40686bf5693242f389bbd9d0b7e0baede#diff-189cd0b816a5a125cfaccf7434dd6d57R46

Thanks Niels,

I have posted it at,
http://review.gluster.org/#/c/13752/

Also replied back on your comments on github.
It will great if we can update the same in gerrit.

--
Prasanna

> 
> Thanks,
> Niels
> 
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