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Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 snapshot + resize
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John Snow |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 snapshot + resize |
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Tue, 5 Jan 2016 12:36:10 -0500 |
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On 01/05/2016 08:55 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 01/05/2016 05:10 AM, lihuiba wrote:
>
>>>> In our production environment, we need to extend a qcow2 image with
>>>> snapshots in it.
>
>>> The thing is that one would need to update all the inactive L1 tables. I
>>> don't think it should be too difficult, it's just that apparently so far
>>> nobody ever had the need for this feature.
>
> Is resizing a snapshot really what you want? Ideally, a snapshot tracks
> the data from a point in time, including the metadata of the size being
> tracked at that time. Extending the snapshots then reverting to that
> snapshot means your guest would see a larger disk on revert than it did
> at the time the snapshot was created, which guests might not handle very
> well.
>
Unless reverting to a snapshot also implied undoing the re-size.
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 snapshot + resize, Max Reitz, 2016/01/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 snapshot + resize, lihuiba, 2016/01/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 snapshot + resize, Eric Blake, 2016/01/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 snapshot + resize,
John Snow <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 snapshot + resize, lihuiba, 2016/01/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 snapshot + resize, Eric Blake, 2016/01/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 snapshot + resize, Max Reitz, 2016/01/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 snapshot + resize, Eric Blake, 2016/01/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 snapshot + resize, Max Reitz, 2016/01/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 snapshot + resize, Kevin Wolf, 2016/01/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 snapshot + resize, lihuiba, 2016/01/18