Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] replication agent module

[Markus Armbruster]

Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> writes:

> On 02/07/2012 07:50 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Kevin Wolf<address@hidden>  wrote:
>>> Am 07.02.2012 11:29, schrieb Ori Mamluk:
>>>> Repagent is a new module that allows an external replication system to
>>>> replicate a volume of a Qemu VM.
>>
>> I recently joked with Kevin that QEMU is on its way to reimplementing
>> the Linux block and device-mapper layers.  Now we have drbd, thanks!
>> :P
>
> I don't think it's a joke.  Do we really want to get into this space?
> Why not just use drbd?
>
> If it's because we want to also work with image formats, perhaps we
> should export our image format code as a shared library and let drbd
> link against it.

I want to be able to "mount foo.qcow2 /mnt".