Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add blkmirror block driver

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Federico Simoncelli
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Marcelo Tosatti <address@hidden>
>>
>> Mirrored writes are used by live block copy.
>
> I think the right approach is to create a single blkmirror driver that
> also includes blkverify functionality.  The code is basically the same
> except blkverify also compares reads - just use a flag to
> enable/disable that behavior.
>
> Feel free to rename the blkverify driver to blkmirror if you wish.

Federico: Any response to this?  I still think blkmirror and blkverify
do essentially the same thing and should be unified.

Stefan