On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay.mathieson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 7 November 2016 at 17:01, Prasanna Kalever <pkalever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Yet another approach to achieve Gluster Block Storage is with Qemu-Tcmu. > > > Thanks Prasanna, interesting reading. > > From a quick scan, there doesn't seem to be any particular advantage > over qemu using gfapi directly? Is this more aimed at apps that can't > use gfapi such as vmware or as a replacement for NFS? > As mentioned in the conclusion part in the blog, the advantage here is easy snapshots. Qemu-tcmu will come up with '--snapshot' option (work still in progress) as much like qemu-img. Supporting this within gluster needs additional maintenance of qemu-block xlator which is the clone of qcow2 spec implementation, which could be more work. Also the qemu gluster protocol driver (access gfapi) is more mature and tested. -- Prasanna > -- > Lindsay _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
