It's been about 3? months since stable branches of both projects were released (synchronously, in early January). Could be time within the next month or so for a new stable release. Is there anything you'd like to get in before then, or conversely any large changes that should wait until after? ---- For me, but none of them are urgent before this release: Proposed nbdkit-forward-filter which ensures that we only do forward reads over the plugin. nbdkit-readahead-filter fix/replacement. Requires background threads, this may be possible already. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 9:41 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:> > It's been about 3? months since stable branches of both projects were > released (synchronously, in early January). Could be time within the > next month or so for a new stable release. Is there anything you'd > like to get in before then, or conversely any large changes that > should wait until after?Nothing pending on my side. Nir
On 4/27/21 1:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:> It's been about 3? months since stable branches of both projects were > released (synchronously, in early January). Could be time within the > next month or so for a new stable release. Is there anything you'd > like to get in before then, or conversely any large changes that > should wait until after?I'm about to post a series adding a .cleanup callback (counterpart to .after_fork, and called in outer-to-inner order, opposite of .unload called in inner-to-outer order), in order to modify the ext2 filter to allow multiplexed connections.> > ---- > > For me, but none of them are urgent before this release: > > Proposed nbdkit-forward-filter which ensures that we only do forward > reads over the plugin. > > nbdkit-readahead-filter fix/replacement. Requires background threads, > this may be possible already.Not easy without a .cleanup callback (it IS possible to create a background thread, but .unload is too late to clean that thread up gracefully to ensure we close the plugin's handle without accidentally calling into unloaded memory). -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org