[libvirt] [PATCH 0/9] Storage cloning for LVM and Disk backends
Daniel Veillard
veillard at redhat.com
Thu Jul 16 14:09:00 UTC 2009
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:46:57PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> This following series implements cloning for LVM and disk backends. Most
> of the functionality is already here, it just needed some reorganization
> to be accessible for every backend.
>
> I verified the following scenarios produced a bootable image:
>
> - Clone within a disk pool
> - Clone within a logical pool
> - Clone a raw file to a disk pool
> - Clone a disk pool to a logical pool
>
> Cole Robinson (9):
> storage: Refactor FS backend 'create' function choosing.
> storage: Always assume we are tracking alloc progress in FS backend
> storage: Move most of the FS creation functions to common backend.
> storage: cleanup: do away with 'createFile'
> storage: Break out actual raw cloning to separate function.
> storage: Implement 'CreateBlockFrom' helper.
> storage: Don't try sparse detection if writing to block device.
> storage: Implement CreateVolFrom for logical and disk backend.
> storage: Fix deadlock when cloning across pools.
Sounds good, I went through the set of patches and didn't detect
anything, Dan's review is more thorough !
ACK for me,
thanks, that will improve users experience I'm sure :-)
Daniel
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