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

[Jiffin Tony Thottan]

On 16/03/16 17:10, Prasanna Kumar Kalever wrote:
> 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
>

Hi Prasanna,

Are you targeting file snapshot feature for 3.8 or 3.8.x release ?
If yes can please create pull request for adding it to 3.8 roadmap[1].

[1] 
https://github.com/gluster/glusterweb/edit/master/source/community/roadmap/3.8/index.md

--
Jiffin
>> Thanks,
>> Niels
>>
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