Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] qemu-img: Implement 'diff' operation.

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 21.05.2012 15:59, schrieb Richard W.M. Jones:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 03:29:22PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> Am 17.05.2012 17:34, schrieb Richard W.M. Jones:
>>> From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
>>>
>>> This produces a qcow2 file which is the difference between
>>> two disk images.  ie, if:
>>>
>>>   base.img     - is a disk image (in any format)
>>>   modified.img - is base.img, copied and modified
>>>
>>> then:
>>>
>>>   qemu-img diff -b base.img modified.img diff.qcow2
>>>
>>> creates 'diff.qcow2' which contains the differences between 'base.img'
>>> and 'modified.img'.  Note that 'diff.qcow2' has 'base.img' as its
>>> backing file.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
>>> Cc: Matthew Booth <mbooth@redhat.com>
>>> Cc: Pablo Iranzo Gómez <Pablo.Iranzo@redhat.com>
>>> Cc: Tomas Von Veschler <tvvcox@redhat.com>
>>
>> Hm, I'm wondering... If I have a command line like this:
>>
>>   qemu-img diff -b base.img modified.img diff.qcow2
>>
>> Would this be equivalent to this sequence?
>>
>>   qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b modified.img diff.qcow2
>>   qemu-img rebase -b base.img diff.qcow2
>>
>> Or is there some detail that I'm missing? If it is equivalent, this
>> would suggest that either the new command isn't necessary at all or at
>> least that it should reuse the qemu-img rebase code.
> 
> Yes.  I tried for a while to work out the sequence of commands that
> could make a diff using 'qemu-img rebase', but it wasn't obvious and I
> gave up.  It should at least be documented.  How about the attached
> patch?

Looks good to me. As it already has a SoB, I've applied it to the block
branch. Let me know if I should dequeue it again.

Kevin