Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] live-block-ops.txt: Rewrite and improve it

2017-05-31 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 03:42:08PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > On 05/30/2017 03:24 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: [...] > > Eric, do you have an opinion: Now that I _do_ have the notes > > available[*], do you think it is worth spelling out the invocation for > > QMP `blockdev-{backup, mirror}`? O

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] live-block-ops.txt: Rewrite and improve it

2017-05-30 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/30/2017 03:24 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > First, thanks for the quick feedback! > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 02:24:40PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 05/30/2017 10:38 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: >>> This edition documents all four operations: > >>> + >>> +(1) `Disk image backing chain

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] live-block-ops.txt: Rewrite and improve it

2017-05-30 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
First, thanks for the quick feedback! On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 02:24:40PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > On 05/30/2017 10:38 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > > This edition documents all four operations: [...] > s/occurance/occurrence/ > > > use raw JSON; for subsequent occurances, use 'qmp-shell'

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] live-block-ops.txt: Rewrite and improve it

2017-05-30 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/30/2017 10:38 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > This edition documents all four operations: > > - `block-stream` > - `block-commit` > - `drive-mirror` (& `blockdev-mirror`) > - `drive-backup` (& `blockdev-backup`) > > Things considered while writing this document: > > - Use reStruct

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] live-block-ops.txt: Rewrite and improve it

2017-05-30 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
This edition documents all four operations: - `block-stream` - `block-commit` - `drive-mirror` (& `blockdev-mirror`) - `drive-backup` (& `blockdev-backup`) Things considered while writing this document: - Use reStructuredText format. It is gentler on the eye, and can be trivially

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] live-block-ops.txt: Rewrite and improve it

2017-05-30 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
This edition documents all four operations: - `block-stream` - `block-commit` - `drive-mirror` (& `blockdev-mirror`) - `drive-backup` (& `blockdev-backup`) Things considered while writing this document: - Use reStructuredText format. It is gentler on the eye, and can be trivially