[Gluster-devel] Gluster volume snapshot - Invitation to edit

[Amar Tumballi]

Will look into these in some time. But to make sure we have conversation
going, will track everything here:
https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/145

Regards,
Amar

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Mark Ferrell <major at homeonderanged.org>
wrote:

> I currently have 2 branches related to snapshots on GlusterFS.
>
> https://github.com/major0/glusterfs/tree/lvm-snapshot-cleanup
> Based code from Sriram that I found on GitHub, though I removed the ZFS
> code from Sriram's patches and created this LVM-only branch. Subsequent
> changes to this branch where done i response to changes necessary to
> implement support for btrfs snapshots (and cleanup a memory leak in the
> missed-snapshot code)...
>
>
> https://github.com/major0/glusterfs/tree/btrfs-snapshots
> This code is branched from my lvm-snapshot-cleanup branch and is directly
> dependant on the changes contained there-in.
>
> Both of these branches are currently in-flux, and I have been performing
> regular rebasing against the GlusterFS master branch.
>
> Btrfs snapshots currently work and have been tested on Ubuntu 16.04,
> though the process for configuring btrfs for gluster snapshots has not yet
> been documented.
>
> Required interfaces to support hard-coded snapshot support can be found:
> https://github.com/major0/glusterfs/blob/lvm-snapshot-
> cleanup/xlators/mgmt/glusterd/src/snapshot/glusterd-lvm-snapshot.h
>
> It should be relatively straight-forward to package up these interfaces
> into a structure of function pointers and allow glusterd to itterate the
> array firing off the glusterd_is_<type>_brick() function at the path to
> figure out which subsystem to use.
>
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Amar Tumballi (amarts)
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