On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:47:25PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 15/07/2013 19:49, Ian Main ha scritto:
> > OK well, I'll explain here my understanding. I apologize if I explain
> > more than needed but it might be good to get this out there anyway.
>
> No problem, it's better to be verbose th
Il 15/07/2013 19:49, Ian Main ha scritto:
> OK well, I'll explain here my understanding. I apologize if I explain
> more than needed but it might be good to get this out there anyway.
No problem, it's better to be verbose than to have an extra iteration.
> When we do the create with:
>
> bdrv_i
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:50:39PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 08/07/2013 11:21, Fam Zheng ha scritto:
> > > Should the source be "bs" for MIRROR_SYNC_MODE_NONE? Also in this case
> > > you may want to default the format to "qcow2" instead of bs's format.
> >
> > Maybe not. "source" only aff
Il 08/07/2013 11:21, Fam Zheng ha scritto:
> > Should the source be "bs" for MIRROR_SYNC_MODE_NONE? Also in this case
> > you may want to default the format to "qcow2" instead of bs's format.
>
> Maybe not. "source" only affects when sync=top below here. For reading
> the uncopied for target from
On Mon, 07/01 14:16, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 28/06/2013 04:28, Ian Main ha scritto:
> > diff --git a/blockdev.c b/blockdev.c
> > index c5abd65..000dea6 100644
> > --- a/blockdev.c
> > +++ b/blockdev.c
> > @@ -1430,17 +1430,13 @@ void qmp_drive_backup(const char *device, const
> > char *target,
>
Il 03/07/2013 20:14, Ian Main ha scritto:
>> >
>> > Should the source be "bs" for MIRROR_SYNC_MODE_NONE? Also in this case
>> > you may want to default the format to "qcow2" instead of bs's format.
> I'm not sure that it matters what the source is for NONE. Since we are
> copying all new writes,
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 02:16:12PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 28/06/2013 04:28, Ian Main ha scritto:
> > This patch adds sync-modes to the drive-backup interface and
> > implements the FULL, NONE and TOP modes of synchronization.
> >
> > FULL performs as before copying the entire contents of
Il 28/06/2013 04:28, Ian Main ha scritto:
> This patch adds sync-modes to the drive-backup interface and
> implements the FULL, NONE and TOP modes of synchronization.
>
> FULL performs as before copying the entire contents of the drive
> while preserving the point-in-time using CoW.
> NONE only co
This patch adds sync-modes to the drive-backup interface and
implements the FULL, NONE and TOP modes of synchronization.
FULL performs as before copying the entire contents of the drive
while preserving the point-in-time using CoW.
NONE only copies new writes to the target drive.
TOP copies change
