On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 02:53:35PM +0300, Nikolay Shirokovskiy wrote: > [...] > > > > > > > > One thing you've missed though is that deletion of snapshots now > > becomes > > > > quite a challenge. > > > > > > > > > > Yeah I did not consider implementing deleting at that moment. However to > > > make > > > external snapshots usable it should be implemented as well. > > > > Yeah, both need to be implemented at the same time. > > > > > Anyway is anybody in Red Hat working on this (considering you and Pavel > > > discussed > > > the topic recently)? If not I would like to proceed with implementation. > > > > We definitely plan to work on it, but I can't give you any time > > estimates yet. > > > > More importantly, since you are interested into this as well, it would > > be great if you could elaborate on how you want to use this if it's > > ready especially any special scenarios. > > > > For us the basic goal is to achieve feature parity between internal and > > external snapshots so that they can be used interchangably and > > eventually prefering external snapshots as the way forward. > > > > > Basically this is what we want to do too. On top of that we want to support > asynchronous snapshot/revert to snapshot based on work in progress in QEMU > being done by Virtuozzo [1]. We have no any patches for libvirt yet. > > Do you mind if we proceed with implementation? I guess I can start more > or less right now. > > Nikolay Hi Nikolay, I was assigned to work on this feature as Peter mentioned. I was getting familiar with the snapshot code and I'm starting working on this feature. Pavel
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