Am 01.08.2019 um 19:38 hat Max Reitz geschrieben: > Hi, > > In a discussion with Vladimir today, we noticed that the backup job > currently is pretty broken when using copy offloading. I don’t know > about you, but my local filesystem (XFS) supports copy offloading, so > the job uses it automatically. That means, that backup is broken and > has been broken for a year on my local FS. > > The last working version was 2.12, so this isn’t a regression in 4.1. > We could thus justify moving it to 4.2. But I think this should really > go into 4.1, because this is not really an edge case and as far as I > know users cannot do anything to prevent the backup job from performing > copy offloading if the system and all involved block drivers support it. > I just wonder why nobody has noticed...
This sounds bad indeed. But are we already going to have an -rc4 for other reasons, or would this mean to have one only for the backup fix? Also, if you say this was broken in 4.0, Cc: qemu-stable Kevin
