From: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, famz@redhat.com, armbru@redhat.com,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, vsementsov@parallels.com,
mreitz@redhat.com, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 00/17] block: incremental backup series
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:50:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150220165006.GC6881@tesla.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150220110920.GD3867@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com>
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:09:20AM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 05:08:41PM -0500, John Snow wrote:
> > This series requires: [PATCH v3] blkdebug: fix "once" rule
> >
> > Welcome to the "incremental backup" newsletter, where we discuss
> > exciting developments in non-redundant backup technology.
> > This issue is called the "Max Reitz Fixup" issue.
> >
> > This patchset enables the in-memory part of the incremental backup
> > feature. There are two series on the mailing list now by Vladimir
> > Sementsov-Ogievskiy that enable the migration and persistence of
> > dirty bitmaps.
> >
> > This series and most patches were originally by Fam Zheng.
>
> Please add docs/incremental-backup.txt explaining how the commands are
> intended to be used to perform backups. The QAPI documentation is
> sparse and QMP clients would probably need to read the code to
> understand how these commands work.
Thanks for noting this, I have this series applied locally to test and
was intending to going through the iotests for initial documentation
when I actually make time to test this sometime next week :-)
--
/kashyap
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-20 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-13 22:08 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 00/17] block: incremental backup series John Snow
2015-02-13 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 01/17] qapi: Add optional field "name" to block dirty bitmap John Snow
2015-02-16 19:58 ` Eric Blake
2015-02-13 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 02/17] qmp: Ensure consistent granularity type John Snow
2015-02-16 19:49 ` Max Reitz
2015-02-16 19:51 ` John Snow
2015-02-16 20:03 ` Eric Blake
2015-02-13 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 03/17] qmp: Add block-dirty-bitmap-add and block-dirty-bitmap-remove John Snow
2015-02-16 19:53 ` Max Reitz
2015-02-16 20:22 ` Eric Blake
2015-02-16 20:31 ` John Snow
2015-02-13 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 04/17] block: Introduce bdrv_dirty_bitmap_granularity() John Snow
2015-02-16 19:57 ` Max Reitz
2015-02-13 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 05/17] hbitmap: add hbitmap_merge John Snow
2015-02-20 9:34 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-02-13 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 06/17] qmp: Add block-dirty-bitmap-enable and block-dirty-bitmap-disable John Snow
2015-02-13 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 07/17] block: Add bitmap successors John Snow
2015-02-13 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 08/17] qmp: Add support of "dirty-bitmap" sync mode for drive-backup John Snow
2015-02-16 20:04 ` Max Reitz
2015-02-13 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 09/17] qmp: add block-dirty-bitmap-clear John Snow
2015-02-16 20:05 ` Max Reitz
2015-02-13 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 10/17] qapi: Add transaction support to block-dirty-bitmap operations John Snow
2015-02-16 20:28 ` Max Reitz
2015-02-16 21:33 ` John Snow
2015-02-13 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 11/17] qmp: Add dirty bitmap status fields in query-block John Snow
2015-02-13 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 12/17] block: add BdrvDirtyBitmap documentation John Snow
2015-02-13 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 13/17] block: Ensure consistent bitmap function prototypes John Snow
2015-02-13 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 14/17] iotests: add invalid input incremental backup tests John Snow
2015-02-13 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 15/17] iotests: add simple incremental backup case John Snow
2015-02-16 20:36 ` Max Reitz
2015-02-20 10:02 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-02-20 14:22 ` Max Reitz
2015-02-20 16:05 ` John Snow
2015-02-13 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 16/17] iotests: add transactional incremental backup test John Snow
2015-02-13 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 17/17] iotests: add incremental backup failure recovery test John Snow
2015-02-16 20:49 ` Max Reitz
2015-02-20 11:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v13 00/17] block: incremental backup series Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-02-20 16:50 ` Kashyap Chamarthy [this message]
2015-02-20 17:20 ` John Snow
2015-02-23 17:52 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-02-23 19:16 ` John Snow
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