From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44901) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0dZc-0006Z0-2c for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:48:32 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0dZX-0008Ew-DB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:48:28 -0500 Received: from mail-ea0-x236.google.com ([2a00:1450:4013:c01::236]:50864) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0dZX-0008Du-6Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:48:23 -0500 Received: by mail-ea0-f182.google.com with SMTP id a15so443072eae.27 for ; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:48:22 -0800 (PST) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <52CC6811.4000107@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:48:17 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20140102161503.GA14565@redhat.com> <52CC13D6.6000607@redhat.com> <20140107202708.GB1273@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20140107202708.GB1273@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] TRIM/DISCARD/UNMAP support on qemu-nbd List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Richard W.M. Jones" Cc: Teng-Feng Yang , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Il 07/01/2014 21:27, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto: > Not much more what I said in the original email (especially see the > attached script which you can download from the bottom of this page: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-01/msg00084.html ) > > Basically it tries to dd /dev/zero into the virtio-scsi device exposed > by qemu, then calls sg_unmap (there are two devices, it only unmaps > the first so we can hopefully see the difference), but it doesn't seem > to have any effect on the underlying file. The underlying file is a > regular raw-format file on ext4. > > I called sg_readcap/sg_vpd and we seem to have all the right > capability bits exposed. > > This script won't work with regular libguestfs. I compiled a special > appliance that had the sg tools included. Try again with the pull request of http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/248421 Paolo