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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>,
	Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 2/6] block: add BlockDriver.bdrv_preallocate.
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 11:10:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131220101030.GD27021@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <521cd9f1c99d5912c7438b1714fe4d0de758344e.1387419339.git.hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:27:37AM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
> diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
> index 64e7d22..b901587 100644
> --- a/block.c
> +++ b/block.c
> @@ -3216,6 +3216,19 @@ bool bdrv_can_write_zeroes_with_unmap(BlockDriverState *bs)
>      return false;
>  }
>  
> +int bdrv_preallocate(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t offset, int64_t length)
> +{
> +    if (bs->backing_hd) {
> +        return -ENOTSUP;
> +    }

Depending on the image file format it may be possible to preallocate
metadata while using a backing file.  Why prevent this?

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-20 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-19  2:27 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 0/6] qemu-img: add preallocation=full Hu Tao
2013-12-19  2:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 1/6] block: introduce prealloc_mode Hu Tao
2013-12-20 10:08   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-12-20 12:36   ` Eric Blake
2013-12-19  2:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 2/6] block: add BlockDriver.bdrv_preallocate Hu Tao
2013-12-20 10:10   ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2013-12-24  8:31     ` Hu Tao
2013-12-19  2:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 3/6] block/raw-posix: implement bdrv_preallocate Hu Tao
2013-12-20 10:14   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-12-23  1:45     ` Hu Tao
2013-12-19  2:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 4/6] raw-posix: Add full image preallocation option Hu Tao
2013-12-19  2:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 5/6] qcow2: implement bdrv_preallocate Hu Tao
2013-12-20 10:19   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-12-19  2:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 6/6] qcow2: Add full image preallocation option Hu Tao
2013-12-20 10:21   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-12-20 10:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 0/6] qemu-img: add preallocation=full Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-12-20 12:54   ` Eric Blake
2013-12-23  1:59   ` Hu Tao

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