From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51877) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUz4J-000308-1n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:45:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUz4C-0006wu-Sc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:45:02 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:58084) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUz4C-0006wb-Iu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:44:56 -0400 Message-ID: <5177D3C6.5070903@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:44:54 -0600 From: Eric Blake MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1366734308-11724-1-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com> <5176BB9F.5060003@redhat.com> <20130424074129.GA20777@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20130424074129.GA20777@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="----enig2HMWHIJPVRDILMLPWJFJA" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] block: block-backup live backup command List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: Kevin Wolf , Fam Zheng , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Ian Main , Paolo Bonzini , dietmar@proxmox.com This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) ------enig2HMWHIJPVRDILMLPWJFJA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 04/24/2013 01:41 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >>> >>> 2. Sync modes like drive-mirror (top, full, none). This makes it pos= sible to >>> preserve the backing file chain. >> >> Based on today's phone call, it sounds like this would mean adding >> optional parameters to the QMP command. >=20 > It's not a problem in this case because block-backup and the sync mode > optional parameter will be added in the 1.6 release cycle. Ah, I misunderstood - I thought you were shooting for 1.5 for the initial release. But it definitely makes more sense if the entire command is waiting for 1.6, since we've already entered soft freeze for 1= =2E5. --=20 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org ------enig2HMWHIJPVRDILMLPWJFJA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJRd9PGAAoJEKeha0olJ0Nq9McH/A43mY7g+CNcdRL3MQpkVhbf vUi/B+2JZzJmYu2gwH37UfeVV5VVNd7tPsZveVjRY7QLj3w3p7EJilKFA2Ke6ZCQ FQKhkHB/mJMthXWpxg/aiT0KQRZLKiiGCZxFo//DP1Pg6SHN7w8aNUA4pbR8eVWU PkpsxUDEOXgXqvgN/sBb2l4aLdLhq/qqL09ooZN2bjBAFn5IvH9mvhj81M3iHyJm QusW1Itsdv7LP7StXLrVXDUkGM0W2qGDRitJZNv+hfCZgmfFb3aQh/CH8EM/IQ5R Ror4GTRPAzY4fkg7/ZncwCPKHkm3H07aR1jm+YfUHTde83Ws+gOnu79n7g7VUVI= =Ruk5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------enig2HMWHIJPVRDILMLPWJFJA--