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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: supriyak@linux.vnet.ibm.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 1/6] block: add support functions for live commit, to find and delete images.
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:58:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5048BA26.5080402@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5048A3C5.7000000@redhat.com>

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On 09/06/2012 07:23 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 30.08.2012 20:47, schrieb Jeff Cody:
>> Add bdrv_find_child(), and bdrv_delete_intermediate().
>>
>> bdrv_find_child():  given 'bs' and the active (topmost) BDS of an image chain,
>>                     find the image that is the immediate top of 'bs'
>>
>> bdrv_delete_intermediate():

> At first, when just reading the function name, I thought this would
> actually delete the image file. Of course, it only removes it from the
> backing file chain, but leaves the image file around. I don't have a
> good suggestion, but if someone has a better name, I think we should
> change it.

Maybe bdrv_unchain_intermediate()?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-06 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-30 18:47 [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 0/6] Live block commit Jeff Cody
2012-08-30 18:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 1/6] block: add support functions for live commit, to find and delete images Jeff Cody
2012-09-06 13:23   ` Kevin Wolf
2012-09-06 14:58     ` Eric Blake [this message]
2012-09-06 14:59     ` Jeff Cody
2012-09-07 10:19       ` Kevin Wolf
2012-09-07 15:17         ` Jeff Cody
2012-08-30 18:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 2/6] block: add live block commit functionality Jeff Cody
2012-09-06 14:00   ` Kevin Wolf
2012-09-06 20:37     ` Jeff Cody
2012-09-06 21:16       ` Eric Blake
2012-09-07 15:56         ` Jeff Cody
2012-08-30 18:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 3/6] blockdev: rename block_stream_cb to a generic block_job_cb Jeff Cody
2012-09-07 16:27   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-07 17:04     ` Jeff Cody
2012-09-07 17:09       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-30 18:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 4/6] qerror: new error for live block commit, QERR_TOP_NOT_FOUND Jeff Cody
2012-08-30 22:55   ` Eric Blake
2012-08-31 14:42     ` Jeff Cody
2012-08-30 18:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 5/6] block: helper function, to find the base image of a chain Jeff Cody
2012-08-30 18:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 6/6] QAPI: add command for live block commit, 'block-commit' Jeff Cody
2012-08-30 23:06   ` Eric Blake
2012-08-31 14:42     ` Jeff Cody
2012-09-06 14:29   ` Kevin Wolf
2012-09-06 21:00     ` Jeff Cody
2012-08-30 21:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 0/6] Live block commit Jeff Cody

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