[libvirt-users] Snapshot overlay-file deletion

Gionatan Danti g.danti at assyoma.it
Fri Aug 31 20:47:56 UTC 2018


Il 31-08-2018 22:23 Eric Blake ha scritto:
> The qemu driver still does not implement the flag. Yes, it's a known
> issue for many years now, but it is surprisingly complex to come up
> with semantics for deletion of an external snapshot in a way that
> doesn't corrupt data, so no one has tackled that code project.

Mmm... if I am expected to manually delete the inactive overlay file 
(after a successful blockcommit --pivot), why can not libvirt/qemu do 
the same? I mean, a simple rm of the inactive (just commited) file...

Thanks.

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