From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59388) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XKqwX-0000j6-Kc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 11:40:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XKqwS-0004Qs-Vt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 11:39:57 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:20421) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XKqwS-0004Qo-Pi for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 11:39:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:39:46 +0100 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Message-ID: <20140822153946.GK14001@redhat.com> References: <20140728084846.GH31917@G08FNSTD100614.fnst.cn.fujitsu.com> <20140822122556.GJ14001@redhat.com> <20140822131331.GN32377@noname.redhat.com> <20140822142016.GN8447@redhat.com> <20140822152233.GP32377@noname.redhat.com> <20140822153440.GK1302@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140822153440.GK1302@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 0/6] qcow2, raw: add preallocation=full and preallocation=falloc List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Kevin Wolf Cc: Yasunori Goto , Hu Tao , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi , Max Reitz On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 04:34:40PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > - really really try as hard as possible to make sure that future > allocations will never fail (ie. write random non-zero data to the > file) s/will never fail/are not needed and will never fail/ Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org