[libvirt] [RFC]: Snapshot API

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 01:48:19PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/23/2010 01:23 PM, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> >>> } virDomainSnapshotDeactivate;
> >>> >> int virDomainSnapshotDeactivate(virDomainSnapshotPtr snapshot,
> >>> >>                                unsigned int flags);
> >> > 
> >> > I'm not sure if virDomainSnapshotDeactivate is a good name.
> > I agree it's not a great name.  I didn't like Dan's original
> > proposal of "virDomainSnapshotDelete", though, since it doesn't
> > exactly seem to fit the situation either.  Any more suggestions for
> > a name?
> 
> I agree that Delete is misleading, but it kind of works (as long as you
> remember that in the merge case, the data being deleted is not the
> snapshot parameter that you passed to the function call, but the delta
> in state between the more-recent content that is being rolled back to
> the state it was earlier during the snapshot).  Maybe some other ideas
> would work: virDomainSnapshotCleanup or virDomainSnapshotRecycle?  After
> all, the goal of this API is to reduce the amount of storage pool being
> used to store snapshot images.

  I like virDomainSnapshotCleanup() myself,

Daniel


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