From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] docs: Add QED image format specification
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:06:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101011140637.GC5439@stefan-thinkpad.transitives.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CB314C6.4040001@redhat.com>
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 03:44:38PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/11/2010 03:42 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >>
> >> A leak is acceptable (it won't grow; it's just an unused, incorrect
> >> freelist), but data corruption is not.
> >
> >The alternative is for the freelist to be a non-compat feature bit.
> >That means older QEMU binaries cannot use a QED image that has enabled
> >the freelist.
>
> For this one feature. What about others?
Compat features that need to be in sync with the image state will either
require specific checks (e.g. checksum or shadow of the state) or they
need to be non-compat features and are not backwards compatible.
I'm not opposing autoclear feature bits themselves, they are a neat
idea. However, they will initially have no users so is this something
we really want to carry?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-11 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-08 15:48 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] qed: Add QEMU Enhanced Disk format Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-08 15:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/7] qcow2: Make get_bits_from_size() common Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-08 18:01 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-10-08 15:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/7] cutils: Add bytes_to_str() to format byte values Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-11 11:09 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2010-10-13 9:15 ` [Qemu-devel] " Markus Armbruster
2010-10-13 9:28 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-10-13 10:58 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-13 10:25 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-10-08 15:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/7] docs: Add QED image format specification Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-10 9:20 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-10-11 10:09 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-11 13:04 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-11 13:42 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-11 13:44 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-11 14:06 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2010-10-11 14:12 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-11 15:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-11 15:24 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-11 15:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-11 15:47 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-11 14:54 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-11 14:58 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-11 15:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-11 16:02 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-11 16:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-12 10:25 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-11 13:58 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-10-11 15:30 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-11 15:39 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-11 15:46 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-11 16:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-11 17:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-12 8:07 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-10-12 13:16 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-12 13:32 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-11 15:50 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-10-08 15:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/7] qed: Add QEMU Enhanced Disk image format Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-11 15:16 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2010-10-08 15:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/7] qed: Table, L2 cache, and cluster functions Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-12 14:44 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2010-10-13 13:41 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-08 15:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 6/7] qed: Read/write support Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-10 9:10 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-10-11 10:37 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-11 13:10 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-11 13:55 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-11 14:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-12 15:08 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-10-12 15:22 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-12 15:39 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-10-12 15:59 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-12 16:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-12 16:21 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-13 12:13 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-13 13:07 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-10-13 13:24 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-13 13:50 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-13 14:07 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-13 14:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-13 14:10 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-13 14:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-13 14:16 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-13 14:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-13 15:08 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-13 15:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-14 11:06 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-13 14:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-08 15:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 7/7] qed: Consistency check support Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-11 13:21 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] qed: Add QEMU Enhanced Disk format Kevin Wolf
2010-10-11 15:37 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-10-16 7:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
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