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Re: [PATCH] qemu-{img,nbd}: Don't report zeroed cluster as a hole
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [PATCH] qemu-{img,nbd}: Don't report zeroed cluster as a hole |
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Fri, 11 Jun 2021 16:41:04 -0500 |
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NeoMutt/20210205 |
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 12:23:06AM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote:
> > Otherwise, you do have a point: "depth":1 in isolation is ambiguous
> > between "not allocated anywhere in this 1-element chain" and
> > "allocated at the first backing file in this chain of length 2 or
> > more". At which point you can indeed use "qemu-img info" to determine
> > the backing chain depth. How painful is that extra step? Does it
> > justify the addition of a new optional "backing":true to any portion
> > of the file that was beyond the end of the chain (and omit that line
> > for all other regions, rather than printing "backing":false)?
>
> Dealing with depth: N + 1 is not that painful, but also not great.
>
> I think it is worth a little more effort, and it will save time in the long
> term
> for users and for developers. Better APIs need simpler and shorter
> documentation and require less support.
>
> I'm not sure about backing: false, maybe absent: true to match libnbd?
In the patch [1], I did "backing":true if the cluster was not found in
the chain, and omitted the bool altogether when the cluster is
present. If we like the name "absent":true better than
"backing":true, that's an easy change. The libnbd change for nbdinfo
to report 'absent' instead of 'unallocated' has not yet been released,
so we have some leeway on naming choices.
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-06/msg03067.html
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- Re: [PATCH] qemu-{img,nbd}: Don't report zeroed cluster as a hole, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] qemu-{img,nbd}: Don't report zeroed cluster as a hole, Kevin Wolf, 2021/06/11
- Re: [PATCH] qemu-{img,nbd}: Don't report zeroed cluster as a hole, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy, 2021/06/11
- Re: [PATCH] qemu-{img,nbd}: Don't report zeroed cluster as a hole, Eric Blake, 2021/06/11
- Re: [PATCH] qemu-{img,nbd}: Don't report zeroed cluster as a hole, Eric Blake, 2021/06/11
- Re: [PATCH] qemu-{img,nbd}: Don't report zeroed cluster as a hole, Nir Soffer, 2021/06/11
- Re: [PATCH] qemu-{img,nbd}: Don't report zeroed cluster as a hole, Eric Blake, 2021/06/11
- Re: [PATCH] qemu-{img,nbd}: Don't report zeroed cluster as a hole, Nir Soffer, 2021/06/11
- Re: [PATCH] qemu-{img,nbd}: Don't report zeroed cluster as a hole,
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