Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH 1/9] qapi: Rename 'dirty-bitmap' mode to 'incremental'

2015-06-25 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 08:20:34PM -0400, John Snow wrote: If we wish to make differential backups a feature that's easy to access, it might be pertinent to rename the dirty-bitmap mode to incremental to make it clear what /type/ of backup the dirty-bitmap is helping us perform. This is an

Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH 1/9] qapi: Rename 'dirty-bitmap' mode to 'incremental'

2015-06-04 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/04/2015 06:20 PM, John Snow wrote: If we wish to make differential backups a feature that's easy to access, it might be pertinent to rename the dirty-bitmap mode to incremental to make it clear what /type/ of backup the dirty-bitmap is helping us perform. This is an API breaking

[Qemu-block] [PATCH 1/9] qapi: Rename 'dirty-bitmap' mode to 'incremental'

2015-06-04 Thread John Snow
If we wish to make differential backups a feature that's easy to access, it might be pertinent to rename the dirty-bitmap mode to incremental to make it clear what /type/ of backup the dirty-bitmap is helping us perform. This is an API breaking change, but 2.4 has not yet gone live, so we have