Re: [ceph-users] snapshots on CephFS

2013-10-16 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Kasper Dieter wrote: > Hi Greg, > > on http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ceph.user/1705 > I found a statement from you regarding snapshots on cephfs: > > ---snip--- > Filesystem snapshots exist and you can experiment with them on CephFS > (there's a

Re: [ceph-users] snapshots on CephFS

2013-10-16 Thread Shain Miley
Dieter, Creating snapshots using cephfs is quite simple...all you need to do is create a directory (mkdir) inside the hidden '.snap' directory. After that you can list (ls) and remove them (rm -r) just as you would any other directory: smiley@server1:/mnt/cephfs$ cd .snap smiley@server1:/mnt/