[Gluster-users] Snapshot in glusterfs

[Visco Shaun]

Thanks keith for the reply


I was asking because there was a mention of writable snapshot translator
in v2.1.
So at present glusterfs is not having anysnapshot like that provided by
lvm, right?

On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 01:46 -0800, Keith Freedman wrote:
> I dont believe theres a snapshot translator.  I'm not sure how there 
> would be since gluster relies on the underlying filesystem.
> 
> What you could do is put glusters underlying filesystem on LVM, and 
> take a snapshot.
> then, if you wanted, you could run another gluster process on top of 
> the snapshot filesystem.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 01:15 AM 2/21/2009, Visco Shaun wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >Is it possible to create snapshots in glusterfs like that in lvm?
> >
> >
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> >visco
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Thanks & Regards
visco