Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: new option for snapshot_blkdev to avoid image creation

[Dor Laor <dlaor@redhat.com>]

On 10/11/2011 01:56 PM, Federico Simoncelli wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dor Laor"<dlaor@redhat.com>
>> To: "Federico Simoncelli"<fsimonce@redhat.com>
>> Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, abaron@redhat.com, "Kevin Wolf"<kwolf@redhat.com>
>> Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 12:45:06 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: new option for snapshot_blkdev to avoid image creation
>>
>> On 10/03/2011 06:09 PM, Federico Simoncelli wrote:
>>> Add the new option [-n] for snapshot_blkdev to avoid the image
>>> creation.
>>> The file provided as [new-image-file] is considered as already
>>> initialized
>>> and will be used after passing a check for the backing file.
>>
>> Seems ok to me as a way to go around fdget and still have selinux
>> gain.
>> Worth to get Kevin's view too.
>
> Hi Kevin, any news on this?
>
>> Federico, would you like to ack or extend the design:
>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Snapshots
>
> Dor, should I do it now or only after my patch is acked?

We're not that strict in the OSS world ;) you can do it before and mark 
as a pending request.
btw: Kevin is back so he will probably drain his queue soon.