Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1814418] [NEW] persistent bitmap will be inconsistent when qemu crash,

[Eric Blake]

On 2/4/19 8:55 AM, Eric Blake wrote:

> 
> Note that the "format-specific" listing has a "bitmaps" entry resulting
> from Andrey's patch (which shows "auto" as one of the "flags" for any
> persistent bitmap) showing the state of the persistent bitmaps on disk;
> as well as the "dirty-bitmaps" entry that shows the state of the bitmaps
> in memory. Annoyingly, the "dirty-bitmaps" section does NOT state which
> bitmaps are persistent, and if a persistent bitmap has not yet been
> flushed to disk, then there is NO way to quickly determine which bitmaps
> are persistent and which are transient.

I've posted a patch for this side-issue:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-02/msg00759.html

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