[Sheepdog] [PATCH RFC v4] add a new store named 'farm'

[Liu Yuan]

On 12/28/2011 10:12 PM, Liu Yuan wrote:

> On 12/28/2011 09:09 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:42:46PM +0800, Liu Yuan wrote:
>>>  - auto checksumed snapshot objects
>>
>> Did you ever look into using the auto compression/checksum feature also
>> for regular data objects?  While it might not be optimal for some
>> workload it seems like a useful feature when we might want automatic
>> data de-duplication and/or have a read mostly workload.  A typical
>> example would be base images for the OS disk which are shared by a lot
>> of VMs and might even get the same kind of modifications to them.
>>


If we really need this feature inside Farm, I can accept it whoever
implement this feature in Farm, if Farm could dynamically choose
callbacks how to read/write regular objects.

Thanks,
Yuan