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From: "Matteo Bertozzi (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (HBASE-6233) [brainstorm] snapshots: hardlink
 alternatives
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Matteo Bertozzi commented on HBASE-6233:
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> [brainstorm] snapshots: hardlink alternatives
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-6233
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6233
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Brainstorming
>            Reporter: Matteo Bertozzi
>            Assignee: Matteo Bertozzi
>         Attachments: Restore-Snapshot-Hardlink-alternatives.pdf
>
>
> Discussion ticket around snapshots and hardlink alternatives.
> (See the HDFS-3370 discussion about hardlink and implementation problems)
> (taking for a moment WAL out of the discussion and focusing on hfiles)
> With hardlinks available taking snapshot will be fairly easy:
> * (hfiles are immutable)
> * hardlink to .snapshot/name to take snapshot
> * hardlink from .snapshot/name to restore the snapshot
> * No code change needed (on fs.delete() only one reference is deleted)
> but we don't have hardlinks, what are the alternatives?

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