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Re: [Qemu-stable] [PATCH] qcow2: make is_allocated return true for zero
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-stable] [PATCH] qcow2: make is_allocated return true for zero clusters |
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:10:43 +0100 |
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Il 13/03/2013 10:14, Kevin Wolf ha scritto:
>> > Otherwise, live migration of the top layer will miss zero clusters and
>> > let the backing file show through. This also matches what is done in qed.
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>> > QCOW2_CLUSTER_ZERO clusters are invalid in v2 image files. Check this
>> > directly in qcow2_get_cluster_offset instead of replicating the test
>> > everywhere.
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>> > Cc: address@hidden
>> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> Can you add a test case for this?
Yes, I'll do this.
> Also is_allocated() probably is the wrong interface now because it can
> mean different things. The content of a zero cluster is indeed defined
> by the image, but it may or may not be fully allocated yet. Have you
> checked if the callers use it consistently in the former way?
Yes, they do. In particular, qemu-img rebase would have the same bug as
the live block jobs.
Paolo