Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Additional parameters for qemu_img map

[Eric Blake]

On 5/6/20 4:34 PM, Eyal Moscovici wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following series adds two parameters to qemu-img map:
> 1. start-offset: mapping starting offset.
> 2. max-length: the length of the mapping.
>
> These parameters proved useful when mapping large disk spread across
> long store file chains. It allows us to bound the execution time of each
> qemu-img map execution as well as recover from failed mapping
> operations. In addition the map operation can divided to
> multiple independent tasks.
>
> V2 changes:
> 1. add error reporting to cvtnum.
> 2. add image length validation in img_map.
> 3. rebase over QEMU 5.0.

It's better to post a v2 as a new top-level thread rather than buried 
in-reply-to the v1 thread; among other things, burying a reply can cause 
automated patch tooling to miss the updated series.

But since I see it, I'll review.

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