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Re: [Qemu-devel] drive-mirror sync points
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Richard W.M. Jones |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] drive-mirror sync points |
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Mon, 13 May 2013 22:50:49 +0100 |
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On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:46:55PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 01:50:00PM -0400, Wolfgang Richter wrote:
> > Paolo/anyone who knows -
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> > Are drive-mirror sync points (NBD flush commands) reflecting guest write
> > barriers? Are guest write barriers respected by drive-mirror? If so, that
> > would make drive-mirror much more palatable for disk introspection work (a
> > drop-in usable feature of QEMU!).
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> I'm also interested in this question. Further extensions to this
> (*not* drive-mirror on its own AIUI) which stefanha is working on
> should allow libguestfs to perform point-in-time snapshots of images,
> which will mean that we can do complex and long-running inspection
> operations on live guests.
OK, I got my attributions wrong there. I see that Dietmar Maurer
wrote the original version of the patch and Stefan modified that.
Anyway I'm very interested in point-in-time snapshots.
Rich.
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