Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH 0/5] compressed block-stream

[Anton Nefedov]

On 16/11/2017 6:26 AM, Fam Zheng wrote:
> On Tue, 11/14 13:16, Anton Nefedov wrote:
> > It might be useful to compress images during block-stream;
> > this way the user can merge compressed images of a backing chain and
> > the result will remain compressed.
>
> I haven't looked at the patches yet so maybe the answer is obvious, but still:
> would the "compress" option be still necessary if what we have is
> blockdev-stream instead?
>
> Fam

Sorry, I can't see blockdev-stream available now. How that would be
different? Would it imply the blocks are pulled up to the top (active)
image?

Or did you mean block-commit? The option might be useful there as well,
and needs to be implemented separately

/Anton