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

[Prasanna Kumar Kalever]

On Thursday, March 17, 2016 11:25:33 AM, Jiffin Tony Thottan wrote:
> 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
> 

Thanks Jiffin, 3.8 will be too early for this to go in.
However we cannot add sanpshot feature in 3.8.x releases,
so ideally this should go in 4.0 or 3.9 if there is a plan.

Feel free to review the http://review.gluster.org/#/c/13752/
Any further Improvements are most welcome.

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