I'm digging this up...again...to see if anyone at Starwind is actually trying to implement this. I've been told "soon" for literally years now, yet I'm not seeing it. If you're not going to add it, that's fine, but at least have the decency to state that.

Just in case you needed more incentive or another explanation of ROW use case scenarios, check these guys out:

http://jentu-networks.com/

They built their entire product on basically that one function.

Just checking in again to see if there's been any progress on this.

Understand #IC and #K but why "cluster computing scenarios" is here? That is good news. The "ROW with discard" mode from V6 is EXTREMELY useful in Internet cafe, kiosk, and cluster computing scenarios. It's a heck of a lot easier to deploy compute nodes with identical software c...

That is good news. The "ROW with discard" mode from V6 is EXTREMELY useful in Internet cafe, kiosk, and cluster computing scenarios.

Ahhem...read back through the thread to see which "ROW" I'm talking about.

Any news on this front?

Done. Thanks.

I'll start by saying this is for the most recent V6 build, so if you guys aren't paying any attention to that any more...then I guess I'm out of luck since V8 doesn't have ROW with discard. Anyway, I found a bug whereby an initiator that runs out of disk space when connected to a redirect-on-write w...

Anatoly (staff) wrote:We're currently on a verge of a incremental update which includes caching improvements.
I would recommend starting the testing as soon as it is released
ETA is end of next week

Cool. Have you re-implemented the ROW with discard functions of v6 into v8 yet?

We are adding new features to LSFS to support scenario like this: - ability to create several LUNs on common LSFS container; - ability to create new LUN based on existing snapshot; - large deduplicated cache to store common active data set in memory. I think, we'll be able to give some beta version...

Cool. Is there a place I can download the last of the V6 series? I have version 6.0.5228, but I don't know if that was the last in the series.

Phew! I thought I was going crazy there for a minute.

You cannot control Redirect-on-Write as there are no options of features you enable or disable or tweak. It just always works. Like gravity on Earth. Or do you want to "play" with snapshots? I'm confused. Let me expand on what I do in V6 to hopefully learn what the parallel is in V8. In V...

LSFS does Redirect-On-Write... OK, then I guess my question is still valid. Where do you configure it? When I configure a thin-provisioned LSFS device, the only option in the "Advanced" options is a checkbox for deduplication. I don't see any option that would allow changing or reconfigur...