Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/10] blockdev-backup: added support for data compression

2016-05-27 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 03:45:55PM +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

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/10] blockdev-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. > > +++ b/qapi/block-core.json > @@ -941,6 +941,7 @@ >

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/10] blockdev-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. Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev CC: Jeff Cody CC: Markus Armbruster CC: Eric Blake