[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.1 0/2] backup: Copy only dirty areas

[Max Reitz]

Hi,

In a discussion with Vladimir today, we noticed that the backup job
currently is pretty broken when using copy offloading.  I don’t know
about you, but my local filesystem (XFS) supports copy offloading, so
the job uses it automatically.  That means, that backup is broken and
has been broken for a year on my local FS.

The last working version was 2.12, so this isn’t a regression in 4.1.
We could thus justify moving it to 4.2.  But I think this should really
go into 4.1, because this is not really an edge case and as far as I
know users cannot do anything to prevent the backup job from performing
copy offloading if the system and all involved block drivers support it.
I just wonder why nobody has noticed...


Max Reitz (2):
  backup: Copy only dirty areas
  iotests: Test backup job with two guest writes

 block/backup.c             | 13 +++++++++++--
 tests/qemu-iotests/056     | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tests/qemu-iotests/056.out |  4 ++--
 3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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