Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 RFC] spec: add qcow2-dirty-bitmaps specification

[Fam Zheng]

On Mon, 12/14 17:26, John Snow wrote:
> 
> If the auto bit is on, it's a must.
> 
> Let's try again:
> 
> "1: auto
>     This bitmap is of the Dirty Tracking Type and must accurately
>     reflect all writes to the virtual disk image by any application
>     that would write to it. This bitmap should not lose the auto bit
>     except by user intervention."
> 
> Or something like that? The idea is that it will indeed be "autoloaded"
> and made active, but some bitmaps might be stored in various
> frozen/unactive states where this is not desirable.

Yes, I like this idea. It also answers my "enabled" flag question in reply to
Max's comments.

Fam