At Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:03:54 +0800, Liu Yuan wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:48:17AM +0200, Ing. Luca Lazzeroni - Trend Servizi Srl wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to use external snapshot feature of QEMU/libVirt with sheepdog baked vdi to take VDI live backups without using sheepdog snapshots. > > This is to avoid the problem of disk-space unreleased on snapshot deletion. > > Maybe you can simply use qemu-img sheepdog:image local_iamge to read the image > out of cluster? > > The release of unused objects from deleted snapshots will be supported in the > up comming series of v0.7.x, I guess in about one month or two. I don't think the object reclaim patches should go into stable-0.7. The feature changes the underlying store layout and breaks backward compatibility. I'll resend the series after rebasing and adding a document. Testing and reviewing would be greatly appreciated. Those are the missing things to merge the feature. Thanks, Kazutaka |