Re: [Qemu-devel] Moving beyond image files

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 03/21/2011 10:16 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 21.03.2011, at 16:05, Anthony Liguori wrote:
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>> 5) Copy-on-write references potentially become very interesting for image streaming because you can avoid any I/O for blocks that are already stored locally.
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>> This is not fully baked yet but I thought I'd at least throw it out there as a topic for discussion.  I think we've focused almost entirely on single images so I think it's worth thinking a little about different storage models.
> Wouldn't it make sense to have your file system be that daemon

I see that as purely an implementation detail.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>   and add an interface to it so you can receive the sha1 sums (that you need for dedup anyways) to calculate rsync style diffs?
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> That way you'd also speed up 2 other use cases:
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>    a) normal raw storage - no need to implement new protocols, file formats, etc
>    b) real rsync on real data that is not vm images
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> Alex
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