Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] Add blkmirror block driver

2012-02-29 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/29/2012 06:37 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > From: Marcelo Tosatti > > Mirrored writes are used by live block copy. > > The blkmirror driver is for internal use only, because it requires > bdrv_append to set up a backing_hd for it. It relies on a quirk > of bdrv_append, which leaves the old i

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] Add blkmirror block driver

2012-02-29 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 29/02/2012 15:37, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto: >> Makefile.objs |2 +- >> block/blkmirror.c | 153 >> >> docs/blkmirror.txt | 16 ++ >> 3 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> create mode 100644 block/blkmirror

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] Add blkmirror block driver

2012-02-29 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > From: Marcelo Tosatti > > Mirrored writes are used by live block copy. > > The blkmirror driver is for internal use only, because it requires > bdrv_append to set up a backing_hd for it.  It relies on a quirk > of bdrv_append, which leaves t

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] Add blkmirror block driver

2012-02-29 Thread Paolo Bonzini
From: Marcelo Tosatti Mirrored writes are used by live block copy. The blkmirror driver is for internal use only, because it requires bdrv_append to set up a backing_hd for it. It relies on a quirk of bdrv_append, which leaves the old image open for writes. The source is hardcoded as the backi