On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 3:55:52 PM, Niels de Vos wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 04:00:12AM -0400, Prasanna Kumar Kalever wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Regarding existing file snapshot: > > -------------------------------- > > Currently we have qemu-block xlator which helps in creating a file based > > snapshots, > > the biggest limitation about this feature is that, it allows creation of > > snapshots > > only for qcow2 file types (QEMU specific). > > > > what about other VM image formats (say VMDK, VDI ...)? > > what about general file formats (txt, docx, md ... another 10000)? > > > > > > Improvement: > > ------------ > > Suggested a feature that allows you to take a snapshot on any kind of file > > with the > > help of reflinks. > > > > Here is the link to specs page (which also has a POC); > > https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs-specs/compare/master...pkalever:master > > > > I need all of your blessings to move this into action. > > We do not use GitHub pull requests for the glusterfs-specs repository. > See the main README for sending your change to Gerrit. > > I've left some comments in the GitHub patch. It's tricky to find where > the comments are, but I think this link should do it: > > https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs-specs/commit/eb00fae40686bf5693242f389bbd9d0b7e0baede#diff-189cd0b816a5a125cfaccf7434dd6d57R46 Thanks Niels, I have posted it at, http://review.gluster.org/#/c/13752/ Also replied back on your comments on github. It will great if we can update the same in gerrit. -- Prasanna > > Thanks, > Niels > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
