From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46169) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4B5a-0008Us-D3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:30:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4B5V-0008Oj-Hl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:30:46 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:15254) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4B5V-0008OU-53 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:30:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:31:28 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20110915123127.GB6302@redhat.com> References: <4E70DEE8.8090908@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4E71E41B.9050906@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Design of the blobstore List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: Kevin Wolf , Markus Armbruster , Anthony Liguori , QEMU Developers , Stefan Berger > We'll need to invent our > own key-value store when there are plenty of existing ones. Let's not invent our own. So a proposal I sent uses an existing one (BER encoding) for such a store. I actually think we can switch to BER more widely such as for migration format. -- MST