[Sheepdog] Deleting snapshots

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

On 02.10.2010 18:07, Floris Bos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Saturday, October 02, 2010 01:42:43 pm MORITA Kazutaka wrote:
>> Floris Bos wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm writing an alternative sheepdog client, and am looking for a way to
>>> delete a (temporary) snapshot.
>>
>> Great!  What kind of client are you writing?
>
> A simple libfuse-based client, that allows you to access the sheepdog VDIs as
> regular files in the file system.
> That way you can use legacy tools like rsync to backup your virtual machines,
> e.g.:

Sounds interesting.

Does it provide read-only access?

It would be quite interesting to be able to turn Sheepdog into a 
general-purpose distributed filesystem this way...


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