<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I'll try to explain - I hope that I'll get it right :)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Lets say that you have a vm with one disk, and you create a snapshot - what it actually does is creating another disk and start writing to it from this point. Now lets say that you create another snapshot now - again, it'll create another disk and start writing to it.<br></div><div>Now if you want to remove the first snapshot, you need to merge the information that was written on this snapshot, so you won't loose data in the second snapshot.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Mohyedeen Nazzal" <mohyedeen.nazzal@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>Users@ovirt.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, May 25, 2014 9:40:57 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[ovirt-users] Removing Snapshot sub tasks<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Greetings, </div>When removing a snapshot, why does the following sub task is executed: <div><ul><li>Merging snapshot of disk DiskNname ?<br></li></ul><div>Attached a screenshot of the tasks executed. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm just wondering why there is a need to perform merge ? </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, </div><div>Mohyedeen</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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