On 05/14/2013 03:16 PM, Kai Zhang wrote: > Current way of doing cluster snapshot is very powerful and has great > performance. > However it also has some drawbacks: > 1. After a new node joins the cluster, all former snapshots are not available > to be restored. > 2. It is hard to backup cluster snapshot to an other storage system for > disaster-tolerance. > 3. It is hard to init a new cluster by loading another cluster's snapshot. > > New idea is to move "farm" from sheep to collie and save cluster snapshot to > a localpath. > > New cluster snapshot retains all features from "farm", including: > 1. object de-duplication > 2. incremental store capability > > In addition, it also provides ability of: > 1. export cluster snapshot to other storage device for backup and > disaster-tolerance > 2. deploy new cluster by restore from one snapshot of other cluster > > The first 4 patches are used to remove farm from sheep. > The others are used to re-implement farm under collie.
How to test the patch? For e.g, how to use the new interface? Thanks, Yuan -- sheepdog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/sheepdog
