Re: [ceph-users] rbd export-dif question

2016-07-22 Thread Jason Dillaman
Nothing immediately pops out at me as incorrect when looking at your scripts. What do you mean when you say the diff is "always a certain size"? Any chance that these images are clones? If it's the first write to the backing object from the clone, librbd will need to copy the full object from the p

[ceph-users] rbd export-dif question

2016-07-20 Thread Norman Uittenbogaart
Hi, I made a backup script to backup RBD images in the pool by snapshots and exporting the first snapshot and afterwards only the diffs. I notices however that creating a diff from one image to the next is always a certain size. And its much bigger then only the changes from one snapshot to the n