the allocationmap has only a hint character. The driver always double checks that blocks marked unallocated in the cache are still unallocated before taking the fast path and return zeroes. So using the allocationmap is migration safe and can also be enabled with cache.direct=on.
Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <p...@kamp.de> --- block/iscsi.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/iscsi.c b/block/iscsi.c index 04c1309..0737354 100644 --- a/block/iscsi.c +++ b/block/iscsi.c @@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ static int iscsi_open(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options, int flags, iscsilun->bl.opt_unmap_gran * iscsilun->block_size <= 16 * 1024 * 1024) { iscsilun->cluster_sectors = (iscsilun->bl.opt_unmap_gran * iscsilun->block_size) >> BDRV_SECTOR_BITS; - if (iscsilun->lbprz && !(bs->open_flags & BDRV_O_NOCACHE)) { + if (iscsilun->lbprz) { iscsilun->allocationmap = iscsi_allocationmap_init(iscsilun); if (iscsilun->allocationmap == NULL) { ret = -ENOMEM; -- 1.9.1