From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org, mreitz@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] vmdk: Fix zero cluster allocation
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:32:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200430143246.GC6578@linux.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80e85c9e-8f3a-7e65-252d-da625a7e077f@redhat.com>
Am 30.04.2020 um 16:19 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
> On 4/30/20 8:30 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > m_data must be contain valid data even for zero clusters when no cluster
> > was allocated in the image file. Without this, zero writes segfault with
> > images that have zeroed_grain=on.
>
> zero_grained=on ?
No, zeroed_grain is the actual name of the option.
I don't really know what a grain is in VMDK terminology, but about the
only thing that felt healthy about the code I touched was that it has
whole-grain buffers. :-)
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-30 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-30 13:30 [PATCH 0/6] vmdk: Fix zero cluster handling Kevin Wolf
2020-04-30 13:30 ` [PATCH 1/6] vmdk: Rename VmdkMetaData.valid to new_allocation Kevin Wolf
2020-04-30 14:10 ` Eric Blake
2020-04-30 13:30 ` [PATCH 2/6] vmdk: Fix zero cluster allocation Kevin Wolf
2020-04-30 14:14 ` Eric Blake
2020-04-30 14:19 ` Eric Blake
2020-04-30 14:32 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2020-04-30 13:30 ` [PATCH 3/6] vmdk: Fix partial overwrite of zero cluster Kevin Wolf
2020-04-30 14:16 ` Eric Blake
2020-04-30 13:30 ` [PATCH 4/6] vmdk: Don't update L2 table for zero write on " Kevin Wolf
2020-04-30 14:17 ` Eric Blake
2020-04-30 13:30 ` [PATCH 5/6] vmdk: Flush only once in vmdk_L2update() Kevin Wolf
2020-04-30 14:18 ` Eric Blake
2020-04-30 13:30 ` [PATCH 6/6] iotests: vmdk: Enable zeroed_grained=on by default Kevin Wolf
2020-04-30 14:22 ` Eric Blake
2020-04-30 14:42 ` Kevin Wolf
2020-05-05 9:42 ` [PATCH 0/6] vmdk: Fix zero cluster handling Kevin Wolf
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