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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Cc: Qemu-block <qemu-block@nongnu.org>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>,
	Manos Pitsidianakis <el13635@mail.ntua.gr>,
	Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Persistent bitmaps for non-qcow2 formats
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 13:46:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170905114624.GI4633@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f5ef1341-cfe2-6e20-3f98-b08ef2f7d373@redhat.com>

Am 22.08.2017 um 21:07 hat John Snow geschrieben:
> Well, we knew we'd want this sooner or later. I've got some pings
> downstream over whether or not we support persistent bitmaps for
> non-qcow2 formats.
> 
> Currently: no, we don't.

I was going to write some things about r/w backing file, and I might
still do that later, but for now, let me take a step back:

What is the use case here?

Using a specific image format is not a value in and of itself; it should
be chosen depending on which features you need. What prevents those
downstream users from simply choosing qcow2 for their data, too?

Kevin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-05 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-22 19:07 [Qemu-devel] Persistent bitmaps for non-qcow2 formats John Snow
2017-08-23  8:59 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2017-08-23 18:04   ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2017-08-23 18:37     ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2017-08-25  0:55     ` John Snow
2017-08-25 12:05       ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2017-08-25 13:44       ` Max Reitz
2017-08-28  2:57         ` Fam Zheng
2017-08-28 18:11           ` John Snow
2017-08-29  9:26             ` Yaniv Lavi (Dary)
2017-08-30 10:35               ` Max Reitz
2017-08-30 12:58                 ` Yaniv Lavi (Dary)
2017-08-30 21:25                   ` John Snow
2017-08-31  7:53                     ` Yaniv Lavi (Dary)
2017-09-05 13:01           ` Kevin Wolf
2017-09-05 13:18             ` Fam Zheng
2017-09-05 13:27               ` Kevin Wolf
2017-09-05 13:39                 ` Fam Zheng
2017-09-05 14:39                   ` Kevin Wolf
2017-08-29  1:18         ` John Snow
2017-08-29 14:30           ` Eric Blake
2017-08-29 21:02             ` John Snow
2017-08-30 11:18               ` Max Reitz
2017-08-30 11:14           ` Max Reitz
2017-08-23 17:31 ` Max Reitz
2017-08-23 17:44   ` John Snow
2017-09-05 13:15     ` Kevin Wolf
2017-08-30 13:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-08-30 13:45   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-08-30 21:39     ` John Snow
2017-09-05 11:46 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2017-09-06 13:11   ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi

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