[ovirt-users] Removing Snapshot sub tasks

[Mohyedeen Nazzal]

Thanks Meital,
It seems reasonable now.

Thanks again.


On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Meital Bourvine <mbourvin at redhat.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'll try to explain - I hope that I'll get it right :)
>
> 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.
> 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.
>
>
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>
> *From: *"Mohyedeen Nazzal" <mohyedeen.nazzal at gmail.com>
> *To: *Users at ovirt.org
> *Sent: *Sunday, May 25, 2014 9:40:57 AM
> *Subject: *[ovirt-users] Removing Snapshot sub tasks
>
>
> Greetings,
> When removing a snapshot, why does the following sub task is executed:
>
>    - Merging snapshot of disk DiskNname ?
>
> Attached a screenshot of the tasks executed.
>
> I'm just wondering why there is a need to perform merge ?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mohyedeen
>
>
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