On Monday, August 6, 2012, Dieter Kasper wrote: > > @All, > > I just read about a > "send/receive feature in Kernel-3.6 for btrfs which can be used by backup solutions to determine the difference between snapshots" > > http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/First-release-candidate-of-Linux-kernel-version-3-6-1659576.html > http://lwn.net/Articles/506244/ > > This is a very efficient interface for backup tools, especially for large Cluster File Systems! > Can we put it on the feature list for Ceph-FS ? > > > Best Regards, > -Dieter While send/receive functionality in some form will be important, I don't think we want to work on it until we have a plan for backups in the first place -- using the filesystem client for backups is probably the wrong interface for a Ceph cluster. :) This topic is definitely coming up on the roadmap, though. I think backups and cluster sync are next in line for the OSDs after PG splitting (and merging?) is done. -Greg -- 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
