Re: [Gluster-devel] Request for "read-only" translator

[Anand Avati]

That's a pity.
> Please reconsider this: Imagine a storage cluster mainly used for
> "archival
> of data on spinning media". In such a case, one would set up a round-robin
> scheduler to fill the storage devices (bricks) one by one, and one would
> "freeze" full bricks by setting them read-only so modification will be no
> longer possible. I think such a behaviour would make sense.
Steffen,
the schedulers already ensure that 'full' bricks are not scheduled new
files. though the read-only translator awareness in unify will help certain
cases, the case you mentioned is already handled by the schedulers.

thanks,
avati

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Anand V. Avati