Re: [Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] User-serviceable snapshots design

2014-05-07 Thread Anand Subramanian
Hi Paul, that is definitely doable and a very nice suggestion. It is just that we probably won't be able to get to that in the immediate code drop (what we like to call phase-1 of the feature). But yes, let us try to implement what you suggest for phase-2. Soon :-) Regards, Anand On

Re: [Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] User-serviceable snapshots design

2014-05-07 Thread Ira Cooper
Anand, I also have a concern regarding the user-serviceable snapshot feature. You rightfully call out the lack of scaling caused by maintaining the gfid - gfid mapping tables, and correctly point out that this will limit the use cases this feature will be applicable to, on the client side. If