RBD Export & Import¶
This is a file format of an RBD image or snapshot. It’s a sparse format for the full image. There are three recording sections in the file.
Header.
Metadata.
Diffs.
Header¶
“rbd image v2\n”
Metadata records¶
Every record has a one byte “tag” that identifies the record type, followed by length of data, and then some other data.
Metadata records come in the first part of the image. Order is not important, as long as all the metadata records come before the data records.
In v2, we have the following metadata in each section: (1 Bytes) tag. (8 Bytes) length. (n Bytes) data.
In this way, we can skip the unrecognized tag.
Image order¶
u8: ‘O’
le64: length of appending data (8)
le64: image order
Image format¶
u8: ‘F’
le64: length of appending data (8)
le64: image format
Image Features¶
u8: ‘T’
le64: length of appending data (8)
le64: image features
Image Stripe unit¶
u8: ‘U’
le64: length of appending data (8)
le64: image striping unit
Image Stripe count¶
u8: ‘C’
le64: length of appending data (8)
le64: image striping count
ImageMeta Key and Value¶
u8: ‘M’
le64: length of appending data (length of key + length of value + 4 * 2)
string: image-meta key
string: image-meta value
