From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: snapshot vs COW?
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:07:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gi4034$kl2$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081214183509.GB2995@networkno.de>
Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> walt wrote:
>>> COW is a nice feature but it is currently broken, so don't use it
>>> until it gets fixed. When you commit any changes your backing file
>>> will be corrupted.
>> Aieee! I use COW instead of snapshots in my management scripts,
>> because snapshots are harder to manage.
>>
>> Is the COW brokenness documented? What version did it start being broken?
> Cow2 is broken in the 0.9.1 release, it was fixed shortly afterwards.
> The symptom was corruption of the image when it grew beyond 4 GB...
Glad to hear it, thanks for the update. That means that the fix is
already in the kvm git repository?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-14 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-12 3:17 [Qemu-devel] snapshot vs COW? Jun Koi
2008-12-12 3:18 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jun Koi
2008-12-12 13:25 ` walt
2008-12-14 18:12 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-12-14 18:35 ` Thiemo Seufer
2008-12-14 22:07 ` walt [this message]
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