[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Reparent children when deleting a snapshot

Justin Clift jclift at redhat.com
Wed Dec 22 21:40:03 UTC 2010


On 23/12/2010, at 8:13 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/22/2010 01:56 PM, Matthias Bolte wrote:
>> Shorten qemuDomainSnapshotWriteSnapshotMetadata function name
>> and make it take a snapshot pointer instead of dealing with
>> the current snapshot. Update other functions accordingly.
>> 
>> Add a qemuDomainSnapshotReparentChildren hash iterator to
>> reparent the children of a snapshot that is being deleted. Use
>> qemuDomainSnapshotWriteMetadata to write updated metadata
>> to disk.
>> 
>> This fixes a problem where outdated parent information breaks
>> the snapshot tree and hinders the deletion of child snapshots.
>> 
>> Reported by Philipp Hahn.
>> ---
>> src/qemu/qemu_driver.c |   92 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>> 1 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> 
> ACK.

Cool.  Sounds like this is the fix for BZ #663586:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663586




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