Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] live-block-ops.txt: Rename, rewrite, and improve it

2017-06-23 Thread John Snow
On 06/23/2017 04:15 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:13:03AM -0400, John Snow wrote: >> On 06/22/2017 04:56 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 06:49:02PM -0400, John Snow wrote: > > [...] > >>> Yes, I was thinking of this, too -- just link to the

Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] live-block-ops.txt: Rename, rewrite, and improve it

2017-06-23 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:13:03AM -0400, John Snow wrote: > On 06/22/2017 04:56 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 06:49:02PM -0400, John Snow wrote: [...] > > Yes, I was thinking of this, too -- just link to the 'bitmaps' document. > > > > A quick side question here:

Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] live-block-ops.txt: Rename, rewrite, and improve it

2017-06-22 Thread John Snow
On 06/22/2017 04:56 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 06:49:02PM -0400, John Snow wrote: > > [...] > >>> * TODO (after feedback from John Snow): >>>- Eric Blake suggested to consider documenting incremental backup >>> policies as part of the section: "Live disk

Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] live-block-ops.txt: Rename, rewrite, and improve it

2017-06-22 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 06:49:02PM -0400, John Snow wrote: [...] > > * TODO (after feedback from John Snow): > >- Eric Blake suggested to consider documenting incremental backup > > policies as part of the section: "Live disk backup --- > > `drive-backup` and `blockdev-backup`" >

Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] live-block-ops.txt: Rename, rewrite, and improve it

2017-06-21 Thread John Snow
On 06/21/2017 06:19 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > This edition documents (including their QMP invocations) all four > operations: > > - `block-stream` > - `block-commit` > - `drive-mirror` (& `blockdev-mirror`) > - `drive-backup` (& `blockdev-backup`) > > Things considered while