The new block driver simply utilizes snapshot-access API of underlying
block node.
In further patches we want to use it like this:
[guest] [NBD export]
| |
| root | root
v file v
[copy-before-write]<------[snapshot-access]
| |
| file | target
v v
[active-disk] [temp.img]
This way, NBD client will be able to read snapshotted state of active
disk, when active disk is continued to be written by guest. This is
known as "fleecing", and currently uses another scheme based on qcow2
temporary image which backing file is active-disk. New scheme comes
with benefits - see next commit.
The other possible application is exporting internal snapshots of
qcow2, like this:
[guest] [NBD export]
| |
| root | root
v file v
[qcow2]<---------[snapshot-access]
For this, we'll need to implement snapshot-access API handlers in
qcow2 driver, and improve snapshot-access block driver (and API) to
make it possible to select snapshot by name. Another thing to improve
is size of snapshot. Now for simplicity we just use size of bs->file,
which is OK for backup, but for qcow2 snapshots export we'll need to
imporve snapshot-access API to get size of snapshot.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <20220303194349.2304213-12-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
[hreitz: Rebased on block GS/IO split]
Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
Add new block driver handlers and corresponding generic wrappers.
It will be used to allow copy-before-write filter to provide
reach fleecing interface in further commit.
In future this approach may be used to allow reading qcow2 internal
snapshots, for example to export them through NBD.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220303194349.2304213-11-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
[hreitz: Rebased on block GS/IO split]
Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220303151616.325444-28-eesposit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Similar to the header split, also the function pointers in BlockDriver
can be split in I/O and global state.
Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220303151616.325444-26-eesposit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Similarly to the previous patch, split block_int.h
in block_int-io.h and block_int-global-state.h
block_int-common.h contains the structures shared between
the two headers, and the functions that can't be categorized as
I/O or global state.
Assertions are added in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220303151616.325444-12-eesposit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
