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Special xattr names "clone" & "snapshot" can be used to create full and linked clone of the LV images. GFID of destination posix file (to be mapped) is passed as a value to the xattr. Destination posix file must exist before running this operation. These operations form a basis for offloading storage related operations from QEMU to GlusterFS. Syntax for full clone: xattr name: "clone" value: "gfid-of-dest-file" Syntax for linked clone: xattr name: "snapshot" value: "gfid-of-dest-file" Syntax for merging: xattr name: "merge" value: "path-to-snapshot-file" Example: setfattr -n clone -v <gfid-of-dest-file> /media/source setfattr -n snapshot -v <gfid-of-dest-file> /media/source setfattr -n merge -v "/media/sn" /media/sn Change-Id: Id9f984a709d4c2e52a64ae75bb12a8ecb01f8776 BUG: 1028672 Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com> Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/5626 Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com> Reviewed-by: Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com>
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