<div dir="ltr">Thanks Meital, <div>It seems reasonable now. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Meital Bourvine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbourvin@redhat.com" target="_blank">mbourvin@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><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>
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<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org" target="_blank">Users@ovirt.org</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, May 25, 2014 9:40:57 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[ovirt-users] Removing Snapshot sub tasks<div><div class="h5"><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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