Greetings.

Before I reinvent the wheel has anyone written a script to maintain X number of 
snapshots on a cephfs file system that can be run through cron?
I am aware of the cephfs-snap code but just wondering if there are any other 
options out there.

On a related note which of these options would be better?

1.       Maintain one .snap directory at the root of the cephfs tree - 
/ceph/.snap

2.       Have a .snap directory for every second level directory 
/ceph/user/.snap

I am thinking the later might make it more obvious for the users to do their 
own restores but wondering what the resource implications of either approach 
might be.

The documentation indicates that I should use kernel >= 4.17 for cephfs.  I'm 
currently using Mimic 13.2.6 on Ubuntu 18.04 with kernel version 4.15.0. What 
issues might I see with this combination? I'm hesitant to upgrade to an 
unsupported kernel on Ubuntu but wondering if I'm going to be playing Russian 
Roulette with this combo.

Are there any gotcha's I should be aware of before plunging into full blown 
cephfs snapshotting?

Regards and thanks.
Robert Ruge


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