Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 02/24/2012 11:30 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/24/2012 12:01 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:49:04 +0000
>> Federico Simoncelli <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Federico Simoncelli <address@hidden>
>>
>> How does this relate to migrate -b? Should it be deprecated?
>>
>> Btw, would be nice to have a 0/2 intro email describing the feature and 
>> changelog
>> info.
> 
> Another question - how does this interact with Jeff Cody's work to add
> blockdev-group-snapshot-sync to add atomic group snapshots?  Do you ever
> envision the need to migrate and/or reopen multiple disks at once, in
> which case, we would want to be setting things up to work on a group in
> the same way that Jeff's patches for live snapshot are headed?

I was thinking that perhaps we needed something like
blockdev-group-start, blockdev-group-commit, blockdev-group-abort
instead of Jeff's group snapshot, but I was afraid of proposing it. :)

Paolo