Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 06/11] block: Support streaming to an intermediate layer

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 04.04.2016 um 15:43 hat Alberto Garcia geschrieben:
> This makes sure that the image we are steaming into is open in

s/steaming/streaming/

> read-write mode during the operation.
> 
> The block job is created on the destination image, but operation
> blockers are also set on the active layer. We do this in order to
> prevent other block jobs from running in parallel in the same chain.
> See here for details on why that is currently not supported:
> 
> [Qemu-block] RFC: Status of the intermediate block streaming work
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2015-12/msg00180.html
> 
> Finally, this also unblocks the stream operation in backing files.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>

Would be great to have the new op blockers already, because having to
know the active layer before streaming can be started is certainly not
nice.

Kevin