[sheepdog] [PATCH 1/2] farm: remove xattr code in sha1.c

MORITA Kazutaka morita.kazutaka at lab.ntt.co.jp
Wed Jul 24 12:08:41 CEST 2013


At Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:36:41 +0800,
Liu Yuan wrote:
> 
> refcount of sha1 file for deletion makes use of xattr, but currently we don't
> support snapshot deletion yet.
> 
> This patch remove xattr code completely because:
> - deletion snapshots can be exercised by
>   1. export the snapshots you want to keep to another snapshot storage
>   2. delete the old snapshot storage.
> 
> - Assume storage for storing snapshots to support xattr is very lame, e.g., we
>   we can't rely on Amazon's S3 storage to support kind of xattr.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Liu Yuan <namei.unix at gmail.com>
> ---
>  collie/farm/farm.h      |    1 -
>  collie/farm/sha1_file.c |   54 -----------------------------------------------
>  2 files changed, 55 deletions(-)

Applied both, thanks!

Kazutaka



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