Re: incremental rbd export / sparse files?

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On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> right now a rbd export exports exactly the size of the disk even if there is
> KNOWN free space. Is this inteded to change?
> 
> Might it be possible to export just differences between snapshots and merge
> them later?

We were just talking about this the other day.

Step 1 is to create a mechanism to output a list of block ranges that 
have/have not changed between snapshots.

Step 2 is to export the incremental changes.  The hangup there is figuring 
out a generic and portable file format to represent those incremental 
changes; we'd rather not invent something ourselves that is ceph-specific.
Suggestions welcome!

sage

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