[libvirt] [PATCH v4 01/20] snapshots: Avoid term 'checkpoint' for full system snapshot

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Sat Feb 9 15:40:42 UTC 2019



On 2/6/19 2:17 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Upcoming patches plan to introduce virDomainCheckpointPtr as a new
> object for use in incremental backups, along with documentation on
> how incremental backups differ from snapshots.  But first, we need
> to rename any existing mention of a 'system checkpoint' to instead
> be a 'full system snapshot', so that we aren't overloading
> the term checkpoint.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>
> 
> ---
> v2: wording improvements based on review
> ---
>  include/libvirt/libvirt-domain-snapshot.h |  2 +-
>  docs/formatsnapshot.html.in               | 31 +++++++++++------------
>  src/conf/snapshot_conf.c                  |  4 +--
>  src/libvirt-domain-snapshot.c             |  7 ++---
>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c                    | 12 ++++-----
>  tools/virsh-snapshot.c                    |  2 +-
>  tools/virsh.pod                           | 14 +++++-----
>  7 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> 

Figured I'd start this and continue on Monday

In my "scan" of this I found it "interesting" that eventually as we get
closer to the user docs there's an emphasis to know the difference
between external and internal snapshots...

Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com>

John




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