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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hostmem-file: add a property 'notrunc' to avoid
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Eduardo Habkost |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hostmem-file: add a property 'notrunc' to avoid data corruption |
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Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:40:41 -0200 |
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Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) |
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 02:27:06PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 02:34:12PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:13:01 +0800
> > Haozhong Zhang <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > If a file is used as the backend of memory-backend-file and its size is
> > > not identical to the property 'size', the file will be truncated. For a
> > > file used as the backend of vNVDIMM, its data is expected to be
> > > persistent and the truncation may corrupt the existing data.
> > I wonder if it's possible just skip 'size' property in your case instead
> > 'notrunc' property. That way if size is not present one'd get actual size
> > using get_file_size() and set 'size' to it?
> > And if 'size' is provided and 'size' != file_size then error out.
>
> That works if you always want to expose the entire file, but if you
> intentionally only want to expose a subset you would still want
> to set a size (and possibly offset too) and avoid the truncation
In this case, if you don't want truncation at all you shouldn't
need to set a size on the backend object. Then QEMU could simply
use the size specified in the frontend config (i.e. from -numa
and/or -m).
--
Eduardo
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hostmem-file: add a property 'notrunc' to avoid data corruption, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hostmem-file: add a property 'notrunc' to avoid data corruption, Igor Mammedov, 2016/10/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hostmem-file: add a property 'notrunc' to avoid data corruption, Eduardo Habkost, 2016/10/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hostmem-file: add a property 'notrunc' to avoid data corruption, Igor Mammedov, 2016/10/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hostmem-file: add a property 'notrunc' to avoid data corruption, Eduardo Habkost, 2016/10/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hostmem-file: add a property 'notrunc' to avoid data corruption, Igor Mammedov, 2016/10/20
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hostmem-file: add a property 'notrunc' to avoid data corruption, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/10/20
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hostmem-file: add a property 'notrunc' to avoid data corruption, Kevin Wolf, 2016/10/20