From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47113) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rzs9r-00079y-F8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:01:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rzs9h-0006OQ-S1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:01:39 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:61581) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rzs9h-0006OL-HQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:01:29 -0500 From: Markus Armbruster References: <73865e0ce364c40e0eb65ec6b22b819d@mail.gmail.com> <4F312854.3080404@redhat.com> <4F313C69.1050203@codemonkey.ws> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:01:25 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4F313C69.1050203@codemonkey.ws> (Anthony Liguori's message of "Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:59:53 -0600") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] replication agent module List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Kevin Wolf , Stefan Hajnoczi , dlaor@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino , Ori Mamluk Anthony Liguori writes: > 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. I want to be able to "mount foo.qcow2 /mnt".