From: "Benoît Canet" <benoit@irqsave.net>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com, "Benoît Canet" <benoit@irqsave.net>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [partial RFC 0/2] QCow2 deduplication write mechanism
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:29:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348756198-10845-1-git-send-email-benoit@irqsave.net> (raw)
This patchset introduce a partial implementation of a deduplication mechanism
for QCow2.
This patchset layout the disk format changes in the qcow2 spec and
provide a partial implementation of the write mechanisms.
Albeit being partial this is posted to get an early feedback and
see if things are on track.
Benoît Canet (2):
qcow2: modify spec for deduplication
qcow2: Deduplication write mechanism.
block/Makefile.objs | 2 +-
block/qcow2-dedup.c | 368 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
block/qcow2.c | 74 +++++++++-
block/qcow2.h | 40 +++++-
docs/specs/qcow2.txt | 6 +-
5 files changed, 486 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 block/qcow2-dedup.c
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1.7.10.4
next reply other threads:[~2012-09-27 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-27 14:29 Benoît Canet [this message]
2012-09-27 14:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [partial RFC 1/2] qcow2: modify spec for deduplication Benoît Canet
2012-09-27 15:02 ` Eric Blake
2012-09-27 14:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [partial RFC 2/2] qcow2: Deduplication write mechanism Benoît Canet
2012-09-27 15:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [partial RFC 0/2] QCow2 deduplication " Avi Kivity
2012-09-27 17:11 ` Benoît Canet
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