[dm-devel] [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM ATTEND]: Hot spare module ? And Btrfs volume management without mount
Anand Jain
anand.jain at oracle.com
Wed Jan 28 10:45:06 UTC 2015
Thanks for the reply.
now based on your advise, if my participation is confirmed, by march,
I would come up with a concrete proposal or an experimental code
to share results at the conference if needed.
Thanks, Anand
On 01/27/2015 06:18 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm replying somewhat late but when going through attend requests I was
> wondering:
>
> On Fri 16-01-15 15:44:52, Anand Jain wrote:
>> 1.
>> Hot spare: is an important feature for the data centers. Hot spare
>> feature is common to MD, LVM and btrfs. And each of it locks in
>> resource to be used only at the event of failure. A system running more
>> than one type of VM like LVM and btrfs would end up having hot spares
>> assigned to each of the different VMs which looks system under
>> utilized.
>>
>> So to increase the utilization of disk hot spares with in the system,
>> a common kernel module with API could do a job better, with some
>> additional features.
>>
>> If needed I can provide a shot talk (just talk no slides) so to obtain
>> feedback and comments from the experts and have discussions.
> Do you have a concrete proposal or even patches for the module? Because I
> guess the general idea is fine but the issue may be in how should we
> exactly tie into LVM and btrfs. So without the details there won't be
> much to discuss...
>
> Honza
>
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