<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I am adding the zfs snapshot functionality to the current gluster snapshot code to support both the LVM and ZFS snapshots and glusterfs based on the file system type ( zfs or non-zfs) will take the appropriate snapshot. And I am working on gluster 3.6 code and should be complete in a week or two.<br><br></div>- Prakash<br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Rajesh Joseph <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjoseph@redhat.com" target="_blank">rjoseph@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> From: "Jason M. Kiebzak" <<a href="mailto:jk3149@cumc.columbia.edu">jk3149@cumc.columbia.edu</a>><br>
> To: "<a href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org">gluster-users@gluster.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org">gluster-users@gluster.org</a>><br>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 2:17:28 AM<br>
> Subject: [Gluster-users] ZFS and Snapshots<br>
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> I’m running ZFS . It appears that Gluster Snapshots require LVM. I’ve spent<br>
> the last hour googling this, and it doesn’t seem like the two can be mixed –<br>
> that is Gluster Snapshots and ZFS.<br>
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Yes, the current Gluster snapshot implementation is based on LVM.<br>
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> Has anyone attempted to write a wrapper for ZFS to mimic LVM, and thus fool<br>
> gluster into thinking that LVM is installed?<br>
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One of our community member, Prakash (CCed), is currently working on to provide<br>
snapshot support for ZFS. He can provide you more information about the same.<br>
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Best Regards,<br>
Rajesh<br>
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