Hi, At this moment there's no support to clone images in RBD. Only way to create new image is to copy the old one through client interface . Sage mentioned that new release will included image layering which will be copy-on-write cloning implementation. On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:39 PM, <Eric_YH_Chen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all: > > According to the document, snapshot in RBD is "Read-only". > > That is to say, if I want to clone the image, I should use > "rbd_copy". Right? > > I am curious about if this function is optimized, ex: copy-on-write, > to speed up the performance. > > What I want to do is to integrate rbd with kvm. I hope that I can > clone the image as soon as possible to speed up the vm creation. > > (One base image, and create other vm from this.) > > Do you have any suggestion about this point? Thanks a lot! > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Tomasz Paszkowski SS7, Asterisk, SAN, Datacenter, Cloud Computing +48500166299 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
