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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/8] docs: add mirroring to live block operation


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/8] docs: add mirroring to live block operations
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:32:09 +0200
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Il 13/04/2012 19:09, Eric Blake ha scritto:
>> > +It is also possible to use raw as the format of the destination image.
>> > +Converting an image to raw will properly support thin provisioning.
> Do you need to mention the use of block_job_cancel needed at the point
> where you are ready to stop qemu from writing into the copy?

No, you need to do this with drive-reopen.  Using block_job_cancel will
report completion, but will leave a race window that can cause to
corruption in the guest.  Do your libvirt patches do that? O:)

Paolo



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