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[Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/02/2011 01:46 PM, Chuck Thier wrote:
> This leads to another interesting question.  While our reference
> implementation may not directly expose snapshot functionality, I imagine
> other storage implementations could want to. I'm interested to hear what use
> cases others would be interested in with snapshots.  The obvious ones are
> things like creating a volume based on a snapshot, or rolling a volume back
> to a previous snapshot.  I would like others' input here to shape what the
> snapshot API might look like.

For RBD we only need the obvious ones:
- create/list/remove snapshots
- create volume from a snapshot
- rollback to a snapshot