Re: [Gluster-devel] File snapshot design propsals

2016-09-08 Thread Jeff Darcy
> 1) Doing file snapshot using shards: (This is suggested by shyam, tried to > keep the text as is) > If a block for such a file is written to with a higher version then the brick > xlators can perform a block copy and then change the new block to the new > version, and let the older version be as

[Gluster-devel] File snapshot design propsals

2016-09-08 Thread Pranith Kumar Karampuri
hi, Doing file-snapshots is becoming important in the context of providing virtual block in containers so that we can take a snapshot of the block device and switch to different snapshots etc. So there have been some attempts at the design for such solutions. This is a very early look at som