Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] block-trace Low Level Command Supporting Disk Introspection

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 22/05/2013 22:47, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto:
>> > 
>> > I meant if there was interest in reading from a disk that isn't fully
>> > synchronized
>> > (yet) to the original disk (it might have old blocks).  Or would you only
>> > want to
>> > connect once a (complete) snapshot is available (synchronized completely to
>> > some point-in.
> IIUC a disk which wasn't fully synchronized wouldn't necessarily be
> interpretable by libguestfs, so I guess we would need the complete
> snapshot.

In the case of point-in-time backups (Stefan's block-backup) the plan is
to have the snapshot complete from the beginning.

Paolo