Am 04.05.2020 um 19:07 hat Alberto Garcia geschrieben:
> On Mon 04 May 2020 06:01:19 PM CEST, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> +_supported_fmt qcow2
> >> +_supported_proto file
> >
> > Do we have to limit it to qcow2 and file?  Yes, it's testing a bugfix
> > for qcow2, but are there other formats that it doesn't hurt to have
> > the extra testing?
> 
> It doesn't work with any other format at the moment (meaning: reading
> the tail of the image after growing it returns the data from the backing
> file).
> 
> Also, it seems that qemu-img's -F does not work with other formats
> either.
> 
> > Also, I don't see anything preventing this from working with non-file
> > protocol.
> 
> Right, that can be updated I guess (whoever commits this, feel free to
> do it).

I don't know for which protocols it works. I know that qcow2 over nbd
doesn't work.

But I think there is a more important problem with the test: It seems to
pass even with old binaries that don't have the fix. Is this only on my
system or do you get the same?

Kevin


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