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authorPavel Butsykin <pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com>2016-07-22 11:17:53 +0300
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>2016-09-05 19:06:48 +0200
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blockdev-backup: added support for data compression
The idea is simple - backup is "written-once" data. It is written block by block and it is large enough. It would be nice to save storage space and compress it. Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin <pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> CC: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com> CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> CC: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> CC: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> CC: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--qapi/block-core.json4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json
index 300a68b..31f9990 100644
--- a/qapi/block-core.json
+++ b/qapi/block-core.json
@@ -939,6 +939,9 @@
# @speed: #optional the maximum speed, in bytes per second. The default is 0,
# for unlimited.
#
+# @compress: #optional true to compress data, if the target format supports it.
+# (default: false) (since 2.7)
+#
# @on-source-error: #optional the action to take on an error on the source,
# default 'report'. 'stop' and 'enospc' can only be used
# if the block device supports io-status (see BlockInfo).
@@ -957,6 +960,7 @@
'data': { '*job-id': 'str', 'device': 'str', 'target': 'str',
'sync': 'MirrorSyncMode',
'*speed': 'int',
+ '*compress': 'bool',
'*on-source-error': 'BlockdevOnError',
'*on-target-error': 'BlockdevOnError' } }