From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, sw@weilnetz.de, Peter Lieven <pl@dlhnet.de>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] block: only force IO completion in .bdrv_truncate if we are shrinking
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:31:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51378B97.2000709@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130306181454.GB3743@localhost.localdomain>
Il 06/03/2013 19:14, Jeff Cody ha scritto:
> QCOW breaks with it using a normal raw posix file as a device. As a
> test: qemu-img create -f qcow test.qcow 5G. Now run qemu with that
> drive mounted, and try to partition and format it. QEMU now asserts.
>
> The nicety of being able to using truncate during a write call,
> especially for VHDX (which can have relatively large block/cluster
> sizes), so to grow the file sparsely in a dynamically allocated file.
Perhaps we need two APIs, "truncate" and "revalidate".
Truncate should be a no-op if (!bs->growable).
Revalidate could be called by the block_resize monitor command with no
size specified.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-06 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-06 14:46 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Initial VHDX support (and a bug fix for QCOW) Jeff Cody
2013-03-06 14:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] block: only force IO completion in .bdrv_truncate if we are shrinking Jeff Cody
2013-03-06 17:50 ` Peter Lieven
2013-03-06 18:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-03-06 18:14 ` Jeff Cody
2013-03-06 18:31 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-03-06 18:48 ` Jeff Cody
2013-03-06 19:03 ` Peter Lieven
2013-03-06 20:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-03-07 8:50 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-03-07 8:56 ` Peter Lieven
2013-03-07 9:03 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-03-07 9:16 ` Peter Lieven
2013-03-07 9:22 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-03-07 9:25 ` Peter Lieven
2013-03-07 10:00 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-03-07 10:22 ` Peter Lieven
2013-03-07 16:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-03-07 8:53 ` Peter Lieven
2013-03-07 8:59 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-03-07 16:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-03-08 7:53 ` Peter Lieven
2013-03-08 9:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-03-08 9:35 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-03-08 11:46 ` Peter Lieven
2013-03-08 11:56 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-03-09 9:36 ` Peter Lieven
[not found] ` <51378A23.5090301@dlhnet.de>
[not found] ` <20130306184217.GC3743@localhost.localdomain>
2013-03-06 18:46 ` Peter Lieven
2013-03-06 18:27 ` Peter Lieven
2013-03-07 8:57 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-03-06 18:32 ` Jeff Cody
2013-03-06 20:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-03-06 14:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] qemu: add castagnoli crc32c checksum algorithm Jeff Cody
2013-03-06 14:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/7] block: vhdx header for the QEMU support of VHDX images Jeff Cody
2013-03-07 13:15 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-03-07 13:43 ` Jeff Cody
2013-03-06 14:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] block: initial VHDX driver support framework - supports open and probe Jeff Cody
2013-03-07 14:30 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-03-07 15:23 ` Jeff Cody
2013-03-07 16:12 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-03-08 8:35 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-03-06 14:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] block: add read-only support to VHDX image format Jeff Cody
2013-03-06 14:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] block: add header update capability for VHDX images Jeff Cody
2013-03-07 14:50 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-03-07 15:33 ` Jeff Cody
2013-03-07 16:15 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-03-06 14:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] block: add write support " Jeff Cody
2013-03-07 15:59 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-03-07 16:05 ` Jeff Cody
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