[pbs-devel] Status of Garbage Collection marks in memory (not atime based)

[Dietmar Maurer]

> >> We use a CephFS as datastore in our test environment and this is rather slow because of the metadata updates. The in-memory based approach could possibly make a huge difference for CephFS based datastores.
> > Using any Network based storage create a big amount of additional network
> > traffic, and makes no real sense to me. You want(should) backup your Cepfs data
> > to Proxmox Backup, not the other way around.
> >
> While this is totally true in most environments, it prevents a scale-out 
> approach where one server is not able to handle everything. That's the 
> whole wish behind it.

But the idea behind backup is to have redundant copies of your data at
different physical locations...

Anyways, I got your point. As mentioned in the code, it would be possible to 
optimize that using an in-memory hash.