Common deduplication & compression engine/framework for Cinder
Although deduplication and compression is supported by various vendors optionally, it might be a good idea to have a common framework/engine for deduplication and compression in Cinder. It can be an optional feature to enable Cinder-wide dedup engine or vendor specific deduplication/
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- John Griffith
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- vishal yadav
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- vishal yadav
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- Proposed for future
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Sean McGinnis
Whiteboard
(smcginnis): Marking obsolete as this has been sitting out there for a long time. If this is still needed, please submit a new bp.
> Do you have any sort of proposal for an implementation, or just suggesting the idea here?
Actually I am planning for the implementation of such framework and currently working on the specification. Though currently I am not sure about the genuine use case for this feature, but following comes to my mind for admin:
- Enable/Disable dedup/compression - (default would be "Disable" in which case existing behavior would be applicable i.e. vendor specific dedup/compression comes into picture if it is supported by the vendor)
- Plugin could be added in "Ceilometer" to collect data reduction ratio(dedup/
