Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] live-block-ops.txt: Rename, rewrite, and improve it

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 06:49:02PM -0400, John Snow wrote:

[...]

> > * TODO (after feedback from John Snow):
> >    - Eric Blake suggested to consider documenting incremental backup
> >      policies as part of the section: "Live disk backup ---
> >      `drive-backup` and `blockdev-backup`"
> 
> Perhaps it could be mentioned, but hopefully I've covered it in some
> sufficient detail in the (now) docs/devel/bitmaps.md file; 

Yes, that doc is very useful.  That was my precise thought.

> I'm a little wary of duplicating efforts in this area, 

I share your wariness.

> but you've covered everything *else* in good detail here, so now my
> file is the odd one out.
> 
> I will leave this up to you, really. Perhaps it could be paid some lip
> service with a link to the other document? 

Yes, I was thinking of this, too -- just link to the 'bitmaps' document.

A quick side question here: Since upstream QEMU is converging onto
Sphinx, and rST, hope you mind if I convert docs/devel/bitmaps.md into
rST at somepoint, for consistency's sake.  I'll file a separate review,
anyway for that.  In the long term, all / most other documents would
also be converted.

> The detail in bitmaps.md is a little more verbose than the rest of
> this file, so if you include it wholesale it'd dwarf the rest of this
> document.
> 
> What do you think?

Yes, I fully agree with your suggestion.  I will simply link to the
detailed document you wrote, which I was thinking of anyhow.

Thanks for your comments!

-- 
/kashyap