On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Essentially, if you're RWMJ (not me), and you're keeping a full > > mirror, it's clear that the mirror write stream goes to an nbd server, > > but is it possible to attach a reader to that same nbd server and read > > things back (read-only)? > > Yes, it can be done with both qemu-nbd and the QEMU nbd server commands. Then this means, if there was an active mirror (or snapshot being created), it would be easy to attach an nbd client as a reader to it even as it is being synchronized (perhaps dangerous?). -- Wolf