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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 00/16] backup compression
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 00/16] backup compression |
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Mon, 8 Aug 2016 16:21:22 +0200 |
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Am 22.07.2016 um 10:17 hat Denis V. Lunev geschrieben:
> The idea is simple - backup is "written-once" data. It is written block
> by block and it is large enough. It would be nice to save storage
> space and compress it.
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> These patches add the ability to compress data during backup. This
> functionality is implemented by means of adding options to the qmp/hmp
> commands(drive-backup, blockdev-backup). The implementation is quite
> simple, because the responsibility for data compression imposed on the
> format driver.
As there were already a few conflict between my block-next and this
series, I resolved those and applied the series to my block-next branch
even though Stefan had already merged the series into his tree.
Kevin