Re: [Qemu-block] block-stream/commit and mixing internal and external snapshots

2018-04-09 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/09/2018 04:11 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Am 07.04.2018 um 00:16 hat Eric Blake geschrieben: >> Perhaps others have already known this, but I just realized that if you >> mix internal and external snapshots, you can set yourself up for massive >> failures when trying to use block-stream or

Re: [Qemu-block] block-stream/commit and mixing internal and external snapshots

2018-04-09 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 07.04.2018 um 00:16 hat Eric Blake geschrieben: > Perhaps others have already known this, but I just realized that if you > mix internal and external snapshots, you can set yourself up for massive > failures when trying to use block-stream or block-commit to consolidate > data across the

[Qemu-block] block-stream/commit and mixing internal and external snapshots

2018-04-06 Thread Eric Blake
Perhaps others have already known this, but I just realized that if you mix internal and external snapshots, you can set yourself up for massive failures when trying to use block-stream or block-commit to consolidate data across the external backing chain, without also thinking about the internal