Re: [PATCH] docs/designs: re-work the xenstore migration document...

[Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 24.04.20 15:37, Paul Durrant wrote:
> From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ... to specify a separate migration stream that will also be suitable for
> live update.
>
> The original scope of the document was to support non-cooperative migration
> of guests [1] but, since then, live update of xenstored has been brought into
> scope. Thus it makes more sense to define a separate image format for
> serializing xenstore state that is suitable for both purposes.
>
> The document has been limited to specifying a new image format. The mechanism
> for acquiring the image for live update or migration is not covered as that
> is more appropriately dealt with by a patch to docs/misc/xenstore.txt. It is
> also expected that, when the first implementation of live update or migration
> making use of this specification is committed, that the document is moved from
> docs/designs into docs/specs.
Can we please add a general remark:

Records depending other records (e.g. watch records referencing a
connection record via a connection-id, or node records for a node
being a child of another node in the stream) must always be located
after the record they depend on.


Juergen