On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Il 28/02/2012 15:39, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto: >> I'm not a fan of transactions or freeze/thaw (if used to atomically >> perform other commands). >> >> We should not export low-level block device operations so that >> external software can micromanage via QMP. I don't think this is a >> good idea because it takes the block device offline and possibly >> blocks the VM. We're reaching a level comparable to an HTTP interface >> for acquiring pthread mutex, doing some operations, and then another >> HTTP request to unlock it. This is micromanagement it will create >> more problems because we will have to support lots of little API >> functions. > > So you're for extending Jeff's patches to group mirroring etc.? > > That's also my favorite one, assuming we can do it in time for 1.1. Yes, that's the approach I like the most. It's relatively clean and leaves us space to develop -blockdev. Stefan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
