[vdsm] Exploiting domain specific offload features

2013-07-17 Thread M. Mohan Kumar
Hello, We are adding features such as server offloaded cloning, snapshot of the files(ie VM disks) and zeroed vm disk allocation in GlusterFS. As of now only BD xlator supports offloaded cloning snapshot. Server offloaded zeroing of VM disks is supported both by posix and BD xlator. The initial

Re: [vdsm] [RFC] GlusterFS domain specific changes

2012-09-10 Thread M. Mohan Kumar
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 17:07:28 -0400 (EDT), Ayal Baron aba...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - As of now BD xlator supports only working with linear Logical volumes, they are thick provisioned. gluster cli command gluster volume create with option device=lv allows to work

Re: [vdsm] [RFC] GlusterFS domain specific changes

2012-09-07 Thread M. Mohan Kumar
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:35:10 +0300, Itamar Heim ih...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/07/2012 08:21 AM, M. Mohan Kumar wrote: On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 18:59:19 -0400 (EDT), Ayal Baron aba...@redhat.com wrote: For start using the LVs we will always do truncate for the required size

Re: [vdsm] [RFC] GlusterFS domain specific changes

2012-09-07 Thread M. Mohan Kumar
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:23:08 +0800, Shu Ming shum...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: 于 2012-9-7 13:21, M. Mohan Kumar 写道: On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 18:59:19 -0400 (EDT), Ayal Baron aba...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - - Original Message - From: M. Mohan Kumar mo

Re: [vdsm] [RFC] GlusterFS domain specific changes

2012-09-06 Thread M. Mohan Kumar
On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 18:59:19 -0400 (EDT), Ayal Baron aba...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - - Original Message - From: M. Mohan Kumar mo...@in.ibm.com To: vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1:26:15 PM Subject: [vdsm] [RFC

Re: [vdsm] [RFC] GlusterFS domain specific changes

2012-08-02 Thread M. Mohan Kumar
Hello any suggestion/feedback on this? On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:56:15 +0530, M. Mohan Kumar mo...@in.ibm.com wrote: We are developing a GlusterFS server translator to export block devices as regular files to the client. Using block devices to serve VM images gives performance improvements

[vdsm] [RFC] GlusterFS domain specific changes

2012-07-25 Thread M. Mohan Kumar
We are developing a GlusterFS server translator to export block devices as regular files to the client. Using block devices to serve VM images gives performance improvements, since it avoids some file system bottlenecks in the host kernel. Goal is to use one block device(ie file at the client