From: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
To: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"qemu-block@nongnu.org" <qemu-block@nongnu.org>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Fam Zheng <fam@euphon.net>,
Wen Congyang <wencongyang2@huawei.com>,
Xie Changlong <xiechanglong.d@gmail.com>,
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/12] block/backup: Add mirror sync mode 'bitmap'
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 11:29:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb178623-e7a3-2d20-f193-9630257d9c3c@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190620010356.19164-3-jsnow@redhat.com>
20.06.2019 4:03, John Snow wrote:
> We don't need or want a new sync mode for simple differences in
> semantics. Create a new mode simply named "BITMAP" that is designed to
> make use of the new Bitmap Sync Mode field.
>
> Because the only bitmap mode is 'conditional', this adds no new
> functionality to the backup job (yet). The old incremental backup mode
> is maintained as a syntactic sugar for sync=bitmap, mode=conditional.
>
> Add all of the plumbing necessary to support this new instruction.
I don't follow, why you don't want to just add bitmap-mode optional parameter
for incremental mode?
For this all looks similar to just two separate things:
1. add bitmap-mode parameter
2. rename incremental to bitmap
Why do we need [2.] ?
If we do only [1.], we'll avoid creating two similar modes, syntax sugar, a bit
of mess as it seems to me..
Hmm, about differential backups, as I understood, we call 'differential' an incremental
backup, but which considers difference not from latest incremental backup but from some
in the past.. Is it incorrect?
--
Best regards,
Vladimir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-21 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-20 1:03 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/12] bitmaps: introduce 'bitmap' sync mode John Snow
2019-06-20 1:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/12] qapi: add BitmapSyncMode enum John Snow
2019-06-20 14:21 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-20 1:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/12] block/backup: Add mirror sync mode 'bitmap' John Snow
2019-06-20 15:00 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-20 16:01 ` John Snow
2019-06-20 18:46 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-21 11:29 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy [this message]
2019-06-21 19:39 ` John Snow
2019-06-20 1:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/12] block/backup: add 'never' policy to bitmap sync mode John Snow
2019-06-20 15:25 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-20 16:11 ` John Snow
2019-06-20 1:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/12] hbitmap: Fix merge when b is empty, and result is not an alias of a John Snow
2019-06-20 15:39 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-20 16:13 ` John Snow
2019-06-20 1:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/12] hbitmap: enable merging across granularities John Snow
2019-06-20 15:47 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-20 18:13 ` John Snow
2019-06-20 16:47 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-21 11:45 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-06-21 11:41 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-06-20 1:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/12] block/dirty-bitmap: add bdrv_dirty_bitmap_claim John Snow
2019-06-20 16:02 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-20 16:36 ` John Snow
2019-06-21 11:58 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-06-21 21:34 ` John Snow
2019-06-20 1:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/12] block/backup: add 'always' bitmap sync policy John Snow
2019-06-20 17:00 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-20 18:44 ` John Snow
2019-06-20 18:53 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-21 12:57 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-06-21 12:59 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-06-21 13:08 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-06-21 13:44 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-06-21 20:58 ` John Snow
2019-06-21 21:48 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-21 22:52 ` John Snow
2019-06-20 1:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/12] iotests: add testing shim for script-style python tests John Snow
2019-06-20 17:09 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-20 17:26 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-20 18:47 ` John Snow
2019-06-20 18:55 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-20 1:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/12] iotests: teach run_job to cancel pending jobs John Snow
2019-06-20 17:17 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-20 1:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/12] iotests: teach FilePath to produce multiple paths John Snow
2019-06-20 17:22 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-20 1:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/12] iotests: add test 257 for bitmap-mode backups John Snow
2019-06-20 18:35 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-20 19:08 ` John Snow
2019-06-20 19:48 ` Max Reitz
2019-06-20 19:59 ` John Snow
2019-06-20 1:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/12] block/backup: loosen restriction on readonly bitmaps John Snow
2019-06-20 18:37 ` Max Reitz
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