[openstack-dev] [Cinder] About storing volume format info for filesystem-based drivers

John Griffith john.griffith at solidfire.com
Tue Jun 24 16:04:36 UTC 2014


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Duncan Thomas <duncan.thomas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 24 June 2014 16:42, Avishay Traeger <avishay at stratoscale.com> wrote:
> > One more reason why block storage management doesn't really work on file
> > systems.  I'm OK with storing the format, but that just means you fail
> > migration/backup operations with different formats, right?
>
> Actually I think storing the format *fixes* those cases, since the
> driver knows what the source format is to get a raw stream of bytes
> out. It was in trying to fix backup that this problem was found.
>

​Yes, but I was also trying to point out this shouldn't be done in the
driver... but at this point maybe IRC is a better forum to discuss the
impl?​

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