Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/11] blockdev-backup: added support for data compression

2016-06-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/31/2016 03:15 AM, Denis V. Lunev wrote: > From: Pavel Butsykin > > 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. > > +++ b/qapi/block-core.json > @@ -926,6 +926,9 @@ > #

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/11] blockdev-backup: added support for data compression

2016-06-13 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 12:15:28PM +0300, Denis V. Lunev wrote: > From: Pavel Butsykin > > 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. > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin > Sig

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/11] blockdev-backup: added support for data compression

2016-05-31 Thread Denis V. Lunev
From: Pavel Butsykin 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. Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev CC: Jeff Cody CC: Markus Armbruster CC: Eric Blake