Re: [libvirt] [PATCH RFCv2 10/10] qemu: snapshot: Improve approach to deal with snapshot metadata

2014-06-20 Thread Peter Krempa
On 06/19/14 22:47, Eric Blake wrote: On 06/19/2014 07:46 AM, Peter Krempa wrote: Until now we were changing information about the disk source via multiple steps of copying data. Now that we changed to a pointer to store the disk source we might use it to change the approach to track the data.

[libvirt] [PATCH RFCv2 10/10] qemu: snapshot: Improve approach to deal with snapshot metadata

2014-06-19 Thread Peter Krempa
Until now we were changing information about the disk source via multiple steps of copying data. Now that we changed to a pointer to store the disk source we might use it to change the approach to track the data. Additionally this will allow proper tracking of the backing chain. --- Now the

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH RFCv2 10/10] qemu: snapshot: Improve approach to deal with snapshot metadata

2014-06-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/19/2014 07:46 AM, Peter Krempa wrote: Until now we were changing information about the disk source via multiple steps of copying data. Now that we changed to a pointer to store the disk source we might use it to change the approach to track the data. Additionally this will allow