From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA94EC88CB5 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2023 23:43:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234490AbjFLXnd (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2023 19:43:33 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:41694 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231126AbjFLXnc (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2023 19:43:32 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [IPv6:2607:7c80:54:3::133]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9733C10F9; Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:43:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=ZlWLeOXVICCHBRrKKLqL9aWEONQcjjN3Lm4aBMgVQww=; b=afaSMC5RX3j1M7bncFgFM7mWmn mrpuVvRDOOxncD9USgGUmd40J82MMdkJFzoygBevKnC4I9Am7YuqcUQFy8xn0+f2pQm4LOMA5rMrh g45HyceqwYRuW/3HlSbM9RohnR4Hr+YD2c6EV3EBr9YCf97J2K4OKIlEkhqbJXl/yeDdqCQ9K7gPd USWddYyVs0xCuREGfQ9wM30iKR83Pr597FExFJMKMgZaWqB3O+CLIglpG3CTCCVA3rl8OvE5sdCNJ Qgw8LdSAsFcHr4aArexARNQ+2pUSnJxUXTQcpnLUIkC2gs9GV8ZFa22OMT+c9UAaVkzZghWmoWG3q AGI+tATQ==; Received: from [2601:1c2:980:9ec0::2764] by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1q8rBn-006Azs-1T; Mon, 12 Jun 2023 23:43:11 +0000 Message-ID: <499ded51-3fb8-f11b-8776-08ab2e9a8812@infradead.org> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:43:09 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.2 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 11/11] blksnap: Kconfig and Makefile Content-Language: en-US To: Sergei Shtepa , axboe@kernel.dk, hch@infradead.org, corbet@lwn.net, snitzer@kernel.org Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, brauner@kernel.org, willy@infradead.org, dlemoal@kernel.org, wsa@kernel.org, heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com, ming.lei@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org References: <20230609115858.4737-1-sergei.shtepa@veeam.com> <20230609115858.4737-11-sergei.shtepa@veeam.com> From: Randy Dunlap In-Reply-To: <20230609115858.4737-11-sergei.shtepa@veeam.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org On 6/9/23 04:58, Sergei Shtepa wrote: > diff --git a/drivers/block/blksnap/Kconfig b/drivers/block/blksnap/Kconfig > new file mode 100644 > index 000000000000..14081359847b > --- /dev/null > +++ b/drivers/block/blksnap/Kconfig > @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > +# > +# Block device snapshot module configuration > +# > + > +config BLKSNAP > + tristate "Block Devices Snapshots Module (blksnap)" > + help > + Allow to create snapshots and track block changes for block devices. > + Designed for creating backups for simple block devices. Snapshots are > + temporary and are released then backup is completed. Change block when backup is completed. or is the order of operations as listed: release snapshots and then backup can be completed? > + tracking allows to create incremental or differential backups. -- ~Randy