From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46441) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RumWa-0004fI-MH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:00:14 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RumWV-00017J-1b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:00:04 -0500 Received: from mail-pz0-f45.google.com ([209.85.210.45]:32915) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RumWU-00016t-TG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:59:59 -0500 Received: by dadp14 with SMTP id p14so7675552dad.4 for ; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:59:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F313C69.1050203@codemonkey.ws> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:59:53 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <73865e0ce364c40e0eb65ec6b22b819d@mail.gmail.com> <4F312854.3080404@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] replication agent module List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: Kevin Wolf , dlaor@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Ori Mamluk , Luiz Capitulino On 02/07/2012 07:50 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote: >> Am 07.02.2012 11:29, schrieb Ori Mamluk: >>> Repagent is a new module that allows an external replication system to >>> replicate a volume of a Qemu VM. > > I recently joked with Kevin that QEMU is on its way to reimplementing > the Linux block and device-mapper layers. Now we have drbd, thanks! > :P I don't think it's a joke. Do we really want to get into this space? Why not just use drbd? If it's because we want to also work with image formats, perhaps we should export our image format code as a shared library and let drbd link against it. Regards, Anthony Liguori