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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, Lin Ma <LMa@suse.com>
Cc: "fam@euphon.net" <fam@euphon.net>,
	"kwolf@redhat.com" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	"mreitz@redhat.com" <mreitz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] scsi-disk: Add support for the GET LBA STATUS 16 command
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 17:40:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36c010ea-5075-5e4f-a7f2-13f145bf83e2@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <556bd179-71b5-cbe7-1d8b-eff20e70a7c0@redhat.com>

On 29/06/20 18:02, Eric Blake wrote:
> - allocation implies that data comes from this layer of a backing chain, rather than deferring to a backing image 
> 
> - allocation implies that storage is reserved (that is, not sparse)
> 
> It sounds like we are trying to represent the second question for scsi
> (namely, the same question that gets answered by lseek(SEEK_HOLE) for
> POSIX files), and not the first (namely, the question answered for qcow2
> images).
> 

Yes, SCSI does not know about layers.

Paolo



  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-30 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-25 13:31 [PATCH v2 3/3] scsi-disk: Add support for the GET LBA STATUS 16 command Lin Ma
2020-06-29 10:39 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-06-29 13:01   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-29 16:02   ` Eric Blake
2020-06-30 15:40     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-06-17 10:30 [PATCH v2 0/3] Add Support for GET LBA STATUS 16 command in scsi emulation Lin Ma
2020-06-17 10:30 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] scsi-disk: Add support for the GET LBA STATUS 16 command Lin Ma
2020-06-22 12:14   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-06-17 10:20 [PATCH v2 0/3] Add Support for GET LBA STATUS 16 command in scsi emulation Lin Ma
2020-06-17 10:20 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] scsi-disk: Add support for the GET LBA STATUS 16 command Lin Ma

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