From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MbjWH-0000Tc-U6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:15:42 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MbjWC-0000Qy-A9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:15:41 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41235 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MbjWC-0000Qn-5M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:15:36 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f188.google.com ([209.85.210.188]:41277) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MbjWB-0002Bh-Om for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:15:35 -0400 Received: by yxe26 with SMTP id 26so1484681yxe.4 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:15:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A849E95.2090200@codemonkey.ws> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:15:33 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add tar container format References: <1249486402-10824-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <4A849A40.3080205@codemonkey.ws> <1F7A05E1-0B0B-4C68-B07B-2F36B9BECF81@suse.de> <4A849E17.3030901@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4A849E17.3030901@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: Kevin Wolf , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Christoph Hellwig Anthony Liguori wrote: > If others agree, I think we should start going down this road. > block-tar/block-dictzip seem like obvious candidates for plugins. And at some point in the distant future, I think it would also make sense for the block layer, once librarized and such, to be split out into a separate sub-project. Regards, Anthony Liguori