Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2016-01-12 Thread Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
On 11.01.2016 20:07, John Snow wrote: On 01/11/2016 07:20 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: Are you sure? What about creation\last change dates, file links, user data, etc? For now, formally, current "For now, as no extra data is defined, extra_data_size is reserved and must be zero." is

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2016-01-11 Thread John Snow
On 01/11/2016 07:20 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > > Are you sure? What about creation\last change dates, file links, user > data, etc? > For now, formally, current "For now, as no extra data is defined, > extra_data_size is reserved and must be zero." is equal to such table, > but pr

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2016-01-11 Thread Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
On 05.01.2016 02:16, John Snow wrote: Since Max didn't offer a grammatical review, here's my attempt at some suggestions. On 12/23/2015 12:49 PM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: The new feature for qcow2: storing bitmaps. This patch adds new header extension to qcow2 - Bitmaps Extension. I

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2016-01-04 Thread John Snow
Since Max didn't offer a grammatical review, here's my attempt at some suggestions. On 12/23/2015 12:49 PM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > The new feature for qcow2: storing bitmaps. > > This patch adds new header extension to qcow2 - Bitmaps Extension. It > provides an ability to store vi

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2016-01-04 Thread John Snow
On 12/24/2015 05:00 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > On 24.12.2015 02:41, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 12/23/2015 10:49 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: >>> The new feature for qcow2: storing bitmaps. >>> >>> This patch adds new header extension to qcow2 - Bitmaps Extension. It >>> pro

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2016-01-04 Thread Max Reitz
On 23.12.2015 18:49, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > The new feature for qcow2: storing bitmaps. > > This patch adds new header extension to qcow2 - Bitmaps Extension. It > provides an ability to store virtual disk related bitmaps in a qcow2 > image. For now there is only one type of such bi

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2015-12-24 Thread Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
On 24.12.2015 01:31, Max Reitz wrote: On 23.12.2015 18:49, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: The new feature for qcow2: storing bitmaps. This patch adds new header extension to qcow2 - Bitmaps Extension. It provides an ability to store virtual disk related bitmaps in a qcow2 image. For now th

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2015-12-24 Thread Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
On 24.12.2015 02:41, Eric Blake wrote: On 12/23/2015 10:49 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: The new feature for qcow2: storing bitmaps. This patch adds new header extension to qcow2 - Bitmaps Extension. It provides an ability to store virtual disk related bitmaps in a qcow2 image. For no

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2015-12-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/23/2015 10:49 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > The new feature for qcow2: storing bitmaps. > > This patch adds new header extension to qcow2 - Bitmaps Extension. It > provides an ability to store virtual disk related bitmaps in a qcow2 > image. For now there is only one type of such

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2015-12-23 Thread Max Reitz
On 23.12.2015 18:49, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > The new feature for qcow2: storing bitmaps. > > This patch adds new header extension to qcow2 - Bitmaps Extension. It > provides an ability to store virtual disk related bitmaps in a qcow2 > image. For now there is only one type of such bi

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6] spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification

2015-12-23 Thread Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
The new feature for qcow2: storing bitmaps. This patch adds new header extension to qcow2 - Bitmaps Extension. It provides an ability to store virtual disk related bitmaps in a qcow2 image. For now there is only one type of such bitmaps: Dirty Tracking Bitmap, which just tracks virtual disk change