Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 2/3] qemu-img info lists bitmap directory entries

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

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On 2/4/19 10:46 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:

>>
>> Oops, hm, I now doubt, how Andrey's patches work, if bitmap_list_load function
>> fails when unknown flags are found. So, can we really show unknown-flags,
>> or we'll fail if there any?
>>
>> And if we fail (I hope we fail) on unknown flags, than we don't need this
>> field :).
>>
> 
> But we can update bitmap_list_load, to have a flag, and show bitmaps with
> unknown flags in qemu-img info.. And we have to somehow not fail on open before
> it. I'm very sorry that I understand it all only now :(.
> 
> So, do we really need unknown-flags field? If yes, may be, do it as a next step?
> And proceed now without them?

Good point about not even being able to open an image with unknown flags
to be able to report on it (qemu-img check might want to be able to do
it, but if qemu-img info refuses to open the image because of unknown
flags, that's acceptable).  I'm good with your idea of skipping
unknown-flags for now, and adding it in a later patch if it proves
worthwhile.

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