From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42576) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yla2e-0008Nk-D3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 05:37:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yla2b-0003TQ-1q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 05:37:00 -0400 Message-ID: <553A0EA3.9080400@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 11:36:35 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20150423113631.GH5289@noname.redhat.com> <5538DD52.3020101@redhat.com> <20150423120533.GF2177@work-vm> <5538E174.9020201@redhat.com> <20150423121953.GG2177@work-vm> <5538E459.5030801@redhat.com> <20150424020149.GL2723@ad.nay.redhat.com> <5539A78D.1020206@cn.fujitsu.com> <5539F4F6.10507@redhat.com> <5539F702.7040708@cn.fujitsu.com> <20150424085841.GC2139@work-vm> <553A070E.8030909@redhat.com> <553A0F18.4010501@cn.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <553A0F18.4010501@cn.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH COLO v3 01/14] docs: block replication's description List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Wen Congyang , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Cc: Kevin Wolf , Fam Zheng , Lai Jiangshan , qemu block , armbru@redhat.com, jcody@redhat.com, Jiang Yunhong , Dong Eddie , qemu devel , Max Reitz , Gonglei , Stefan Hajnoczi , Yang Hongyang , zhanghailiang On 24/04/2015 11:38, Wen Congyang wrote: >> > >> > That can be done with drive-mirror. But I think it's too early for that. > Do you mean use drive-mirror instead of quorum? Only before starting up a new secondary. Basically you do a migration with non-shared storage, and then start the secondary in colo mode. But it's only for the failover case. Quorum (or a new block/colo.c driver or filter) is fine for normal colo operation. Paolo