Am 22.07.2016 um 10:17 hat Denis V. Lunev geschrieben: > The idea is simple - backup is "written-once" data. It is written block > by block and it is large enough. It would be nice to save storage > space and compress it. > > These patches add the ability to compress data during backup. This > functionality is implemented by means of adding options to the qmp/hmp > commands(drive-backup, blockdev-backup). The implementation is quite > simple, because the responsibility for data compression imposed on the > format driver.
As there were already a few conflict between my block-next and this series, I resolved those and applied the series to my block-next branch even though Stefan had already merged the series into his tree. Kevin
