[sheepdog] [PATCH v3 0/9] object reclaim based on generational reference counting

[MORITA Kazutaka]

At Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:08:28 +0800,
Liu Yuan wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 07:08:27PM +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Hitoshi Mitake
> > <mitake.hitoshi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The object reclaim doesn't support hypervolume yet. But hypervolume cannot be
> > > used as a virtual disk (both of qemu and tgt don't support it) currently. And
> > > the removal of old vdi deletion is acceptable for hypervolume because it doesn't
> > > support snapshot, etc. So I think this patchset can be applied to the master
> > > branch.
> > >
> 
> I don't think we should merge this patch set in such a haste because it is in
> the critical deletion patch that is unlike conditional feature, e.g, nfs, http
> that if not enabled, users won't be affected. There are some uers like us using
> master branch as the production base. I think of marking the master tip as 
> stable-0.8.1 before applying this patch set.

What do you mean?  I think 0.8.1 should be marked in the stable-0.8
branch.  I really don't think using a master branch for production is
a good idea.

I'd suggest that this series be merged at the early stage.  This
change is very fundamental one, so I and Hitoshi had spent a lot of
time for rebasing to master every time.  If we want to see this
feature in the next release, we should move to incremental development
as soon as possible after adding more tests and addressing our
reviews.

Thanks,

Kazutaka