From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42587) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VlMxh-00042Q-GQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:02:20 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VlMxa-0006hx-7F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:02:13 -0500 Received: from mail-pd0-f181.google.com ([209.85.192.181]:60734) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VlMxa-0006hd-2L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:02:06 -0500 Received: by mail-pd0-f181.google.com with SMTP id p10so8195824pdj.12 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:02:05 -0800 (PST) From: Anthony Liguori In-Reply-To: <1385407736-13941-1-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com> References: <1385407736-13941-1-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:02:03 -0800 Message-ID: <87vbzfrqhw.fsf@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.7 0/2] block/drive-mirror: Reuse backing HD for sync=none List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Max Reitz , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Kevin Wolf , Paolo Bonzini , Stefan Hajnoczi Max Reitz writes: > This series fixes the drive-mirror blockjob in case of "none" sync mode > to always use the old (current) image file as the backing file of the > newly created mirrored file (in case of "absolute-paths" mode). > > It is rather important to get this into 1.7, as we will introduce an at > least pretty strange API in case the original file is unbacked > otherwise. Kevin/Stefan? Do we need this for 1.7? Regards, Anthony Liguori > > > Max Reitz (2): > block/drive-mirror: Reuse backing HD for sync=none > qemu-iotests: Fix test 041 > > blockdev.c | 3 +++ > tests/qemu-iotests/041 | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- > tests/qemu-iotests/041.out | 4 ++-- > 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > -- > 1.8.4.2