Snapshots are now in the ‘unstable’ branch

sage

I’ve just merged the snapshot support into the unstable branch.  It’s not
completely finished yet (garbage collection and handling for a number of
corner cases is still missing), but provided you don’t actually
create/destroy any snapshots, things will behave as before.

I’m merging this now because there was relatively extensive surgery on the
MDS to include this support, and I’d like to shake out the resulting bugs
sooner rather than later.  This also precipitated a lot of cleanups and
bug fixes.

If you’d like to try out the snapshots, it’s pretty fun.  The main caveat
is you snapshots on the fs root directory don’t work right… it has to be
a subdirectory.  Something like so:

$ mount -t ceph 1.2.3.4:/ /ceph $ mkdir /ceph/foo $ touch /ceph/foo/asdf $ mkdir /ceph/foo/.snap/my_first_snapshot $ rm /ceph/foo/asdf $ ls -al /ceph/foo/.snap/* /ceph/foo

‘rmdir’ will remove a snapshot (although disk space isn’t being reclaimed
yet).