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From: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
To: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Cc: Ugis <ugis22@gmail.com>,
	"ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ceph-users@ceph.com" <ceph-users@ceph.com>
Subject: Re: ocfs2 for OSDs?
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:55:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130911215511.3ae4e85a@plati.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1309110916180.23522@cobra.newdream.net>

Hi Sage,

On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:18:13 -0700 (PDT)
Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com> wrote:

> > REFLINKs (inode-based writeable snapshots)  
> 
> This is the one item on this list I see that the ceph-osds could take real 
> advantage of; it would make object clones triggered by things like RBD 
> snapshots faster.  What is missing from this list that would be similarly 
> (or more) useful is a volume/fs snapshot feature.

I must be missing something here, but I don't see how this would offer
any advantage over Btrfs, which provides the same feature via
BTRFS_IOC_CLONE and BTRFS_IOC_CLONE_RANGE.

Cheers, David

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-11 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-11 13:58 ocfs2 for OSDs? Ugis
     [not found] ` <CAE63xUNKj7JnU_Kypnh39j4z6qVPh2ZLCdiEvfis3_9fDBZ2FA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-11 16:18   ` Sage Weil
2013-09-11 19:55     ` David Disseldorp [this message]
2013-09-11 20:02       ` Gregory Farnum
2013-09-12 15:13   ` Jeff Bachtel

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