On 03/31/2014 09:56 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 03/31/2014 02:56 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On 03/29/14 23:20, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Now that we have a common struct, it's time to start using it!
>> Since external snapshots make a longer backing chain, it is
>> only natural to use the same struct for the file created by
>> the snapshot as what we use for <domain> disks.
>>
> And here we can introduce a function to copy the source instead
of doing
> it manually.
Also a future patch that I was already planning on :)
>
> ACK to the patch. The proposed changes are definitely separable and
> better to review separately.
Good - we're on the same page. Again, I'm waiting for this series until
after 1.2.3 is out, but glad that it is ACKed so far.
I've pushed through here; the rest of what I've posted in this thread
(13-16) is something I'm still thinking about, and may rebase slightly
differently. I'll start a new thread for my next work, which is trying
to merge virStorageFileMetadata and virStorageSource into a single struct.
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