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authorMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>2018-05-01 18:57:49 +0200
committerMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>2018-06-11 16:18:45 +0200
commit351c8efff9ad809c822d55620df54d575d536f68 (patch)
treee272cd607dba831050f07764c59ddf491b15f14c /README
parent28036a7f7044fddb79819e3c8fcb4ae5605c60e0 (diff)
qemu-img: Special post-backing convert handling
Currently, qemu-img convert writes zeroes when it reads zeroes. Sometimes it does not because the target is initialized to zeroes anyway, so we do not need to overwrite (and thus potentially allocate) it. This is never the case for targets with backing files, though. But even they may have an area that is initialized to zeroes, and that is the area past the end of the backing file (if that is shorter than the overlay). So if the target format's unallocated blocks are zero and there is a gap between the target's backing file's end and the target's end, we do not have to explicitly write zeroes there. Buglink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527898 Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Message-id: 20180501165750.19242-2-mreitz@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
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