Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/4] Live block commit

[Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>]

On 08/14/2012 03:41 AM, Tiziano Müller wrote:
> Hi Jeff
> 
> This is an awesome feature and absolutely necessary to get a working
> live-snapshot/backup solution.
> 
> What is the status on this? Will it make it into 1.2.0?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> best regards,
> Tiziano

Hi Tiziano,

Sorry, I didn't catch your email before (feel free to cc me on any
direct questions).  This did not make it into 1.2, but it should make
it into 1.3.  I am prepping a new patch series now to send out (which
is how I ran across your email, as I was double checking that I did
not miss any review comments - I must have missed it when you first
sent it).

Thanks,
Jeff


> 
> Am Dienstag, den 31.07.2012, 01:16 -0400 schrieb Jeff Cody:
>> These are proposed changes, to add live block commit functionality.
>>
>> I originally had intended for this RFC series to include the more
>> complicated case of a live commit of the active layer, but removed
>> it for this commit in the hopes of making it into the soft feature
>> freeze for 1.2, so this series is the simpler case.
>>
>> This series adds the basic case, of a live commit between two
>> images below the active layer, e.g.:
>>
>> [base] <--- [snp-1] <--- [snp-2] <--- [snp-3] <--- [active]
>>
>> can be collapsed down via commit, into:
>>
>> [base] <--- [active]
>>
>> or,
>>
>> [base] <--- [snp-1] <--- [active],
>>
>> [base] <--- [snp-3] <--- [active],
>>
>> etc..
>>
>>
>> qemu-io tests for the block commit will be adding onto the v1 patch
>> set.
>>
>> These patches are on top of Supriya's reopen() series, and Paolo's
>> block mirror series (the RFC series).  I have not rebased yet to the
>> newer patches put out by Supriya and Paolo - this was tested w/o the
>> reopen, by manually making sure the images stayed in a r/w state.
>>
>>
>> Jeff Cody (4):
>>   block: add support functions for live commit, to find and delete
>>     images.
>>   block: add live block commit functionality
>>   qerror: new errors for live block commit, QERR_TOP_NOT_FOUND
>>   QAPI: add command for live block commit, 'block-commit'
>>
>>  block.c             |  136 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  block.h             |    4 ++
>>  block/Makefile.objs |    2 +-
>>  block/commit.c      |  200 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  block_int.h         |   19 +++++
>>  blockdev.c          |   78 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>  qapi-schema.json    |   33 +++++++++
>>  qerror.c            |    4 ++
>>  qerror.h            |    3 +
>>  qmp-commands.hx     |    6 ++
>>  trace-events        |    2 +
>>  11 files changed, 485 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 block/commit.c
>>
>