Il 14/10/2013 22:10, Wolfgang Richter ha scritto:
> Okay, I think my impression might be wrong, but I thought
> 'drive-mirror' would become deprecated with the new 'drive-backup'
> command and code.
>
> If we look at what they do (current documentation and code),
> 'drive-backup' AFAIK behaves the
On 10/14/2013 02:10 PM, Wolfgang Richter wrote:
>>
>> Add the designation '(since 1.7)' to make it obvious when this mode was
>> introduced.
>
> Done. Is it better to place the updated patch in this thread or start
> a new one?
http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch suggests submitting a
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Fam Zheng wrote:
> While mirroring write is a good idea, doing it with drive-backup is probably
> not. The function of this command is to 'backup' the image with existing data,
> instead of new data. With your 'stream' mode, this semantic is changed.
I'm not so su
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/11/2013 09:18 AM, Wolfgang Richter wrote:
>> Idea: Introduce a mode for drive-backup that duplicates writes to
>> another target, not CoW. It is useful for introspecting (my use
>> case), and for keeping a remote block device in sync wit
On Fri, 10/11 11:18, Wolfgang Richter wrote:
> Idea: Introduce a mode for drive-backup that duplicates writes to
> another target, not CoW. It is useful for introspecting (my use
> case), and for keeping a remote block device in sync with writes
> (helps with migration or backup).
>
>
>
> Issue
On 10/11/2013 09:18 AM, Wolfgang Richter wrote:
> Idea: Introduce a mode for drive-backup that duplicates writes to
> another target, not CoW. It is useful for introspecting (my use
> case), and for keeping a remote block device in sync with writes
> (helps with migration or backup).
>
>
>
> T
Idea: Introduce a mode for drive-backup that duplicates writes to
another target, not CoW. It is useful for introspecting (my use
case), and for keeping a remote block device in sync with writes
(helps with migration or backup).
Issue with current modes: All of the current modes are well-desig
