On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Niels de Vos <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 07:43:17AM +0530, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote: > > hi, > > I just created a github issue for reflink support > > <https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/349>(#349) in glusterfs. We > > are intending to use this feature to do block snapshots in gluster-block. > > > > Please let us know your comments on the github issue. I have added the > > changes we may need for xlators I know a little bit about. Please help in > > identifying gaps in implementing this FOP. > > For gluster-block it may be easier to have snapshot support in > tcmu-runner instead? The qcow2 format would be ideal, and is in use by > different Virtual Machine approaches running on Gluster already. There > even is an upstream issue open for it: > https://github.com/open-iscsi/tcmu-runner/issues/32 > > Contributing towards this might be quicker than implementing file > snapshot support in Gluster? > We tried that route by talking Fam Zheng, but the solution won't be delivered in the timelines we are looking for. So we went with this approach. > > Niels > -- Pranith
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