Re: [Gluster-devel] gluster 3.4 worm feature

[Vijay Bellur]

On 03/18/2013 10:38 AM, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote:
> It would defeat the purpose of WORM. WORM should guarantee no
> modifications to already written content.

Implementations where modifications are not allowed but deletions by 
authorized administrators are allowed do exist today. This policy would 
be optional and the default behaviour would be to allow no deletions.

-Vijay

> -ab
>
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Vijay Bellur <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 03/14/2013 06:36 PM, Tobias Winter wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > we were hoping to be able to use the upcoming worm feature for a backup
> > > volume, however I again read the wiki page describing it and found the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > With a volume converted to WORM, the changes are as follows:
> > >    * Truncation, Deletion wont be supported
> > >
> > > So there will be no way to delete files?
> >
> > If you think it would be helpful, we can make this an optional behaviour.
> > Enabling an option "allow-delete" could pass through deletes on to the next
> > translator.
> >
> > -Vijay
> >
> >
> >
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