Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Support for multi-file raw images

2006-05-12 Thread Ryan Lortie
On Fri, 2006-12-05 at 22:21 +0200, Flavio Visentin wrote: > OT for qemu, but if you use *rsync*, then only the changed part of the > file are copied, not all the file. Rsync was written just for this > reason, to avoid copying unneccessary unchanged data. But as soon as the modification stamp chan

Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Support for multi-file raw images

2006-05-12 Thread Ryan Lortie
On Fri, 2006-12-05 at 09:35 -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > Have you tried making a read-only 'base' image and using qcow images > instead? I'm not convinced that splitting things up is going to help a > lot. You might end up writing 1 512 byte block each to 500 files.. in > the qcow image case,

[Qemu-devel] PATCH: Support for multi-file raw images

2006-05-10 Thread Ryan Lortie
are deleted (for example) while QEMU is running then this is quite bad. Currently this will result in read/write requests returning -1. Maybe it makes sense to panic and cause QEMU to exit. o All comments welcome. Cheers. /* * Block driver for multiple-file raw images. * Copyri