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From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Kaveh Razavi <kaveh@cs.vu.nl>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce cache images for the QCOW2 format
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 08:53:51 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130815005351.GA4173@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F7EC3402-4216-4ED6-A844-BC1657D422BF@alex.org.uk>

On Wed, 08/14 13:03, Alex Bligh wrote:
> 
> On 14 Aug 2013, at 12:52, Fam Zheng wrote:
> 
> > Yes, this one sounds good to have. VMDK and VHDX have this kind of
> > backing file status validation.
> 
> ... though I'd prefer something safer than looking at mtime, for
> instance a sequence number that is incremented prior to any
> bdrv_close if a write has been done since bdrv_open.
> 
It should be incremented prior to any write for each r/w open, in case
program crashes after write but before close.

Fam

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-15  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-13 17:03 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce cache images for the QCOW2 format Kaveh Razavi
2013-08-13 21:37 ` Eric Blake
2013-08-14 11:13   ` Kaveh Razavi
2013-08-13 22:53 ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-14 11:28   ` Kaveh Razavi
2013-08-14 11:52     ` Fam Zheng
2013-08-14 12:03       ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-14 15:58         ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-08-15  0:53         ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2013-08-15  5:51           ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-14 11:57     ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-14 13:37       ` Kaveh Razavi
2013-08-13 23:16 ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-14 11:42   ` Kaveh Razavi
2013-08-14 12:02     ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-14 13:43       ` Kaveh Razavi
2013-08-14 13:50         ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-14 14:26           ` Kaveh Razavi
2013-08-14 15:02             ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-14 15:32             ` Kevin Wolf
2013-08-15  7:50               ` Wenchao Xia
2013-08-15  8:11               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-14  9:29 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-14 14:20   ` Kaveh Razavi
2013-08-15  8:32     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-15 12:25       ` Kaveh Razavi

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