Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/10] drive-backup: added support for data compression

2016-05-27 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 03:45:54PM +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. > > The patch adds a flag to the qmp/hmp

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/10] drive-backup: added support for data compression

2016-05-16 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/14/2016 06:45 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. > > The patch adds a flag to the qmp/hmp drive-backup comm

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/10] drive-backup: added support for data compression

2016-05-14 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. The patch adds a flag to the qmp/hmp drive-backup command which enables block compression. Compression should be i