On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Patrick Donnelly <pdonnell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Gregory Farnum <gfarnum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Some specific questions: >> * Right now, we allow users to rename snapshots. (This is newish, so >> you may not be aware of it if you've been using snapshots for a >> while.) Is that an important ability to preserve? > > IMO, renaming snapshots is very useful when doing regular time-based > snapshots (e.g. a "today" snapshot is renamed "yesterday"). This is a > very popular feature in ZFS. > >> * If you create a hard link at "/1/2/foo/bar" pointing at "/1/3/bar" >> and then take a snapshot at "/1/2/foo", it *will not* capture the file >> data in bar. Is that okay? Doing otherwise is *exceedingly* difficult. > > This is only the case if /1/2/foo/ does not have the embedded inode > for "bar", right? (That's normally the case but an intervening unlink > of "1/3/bar" may eventually cause "/1/2/foo/bar" to become the new > primary inode?) Yeah, that total lack of user-visibile status around hard links is the very best part. :/ _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
 |