Re: [PATCH 7/6] mirror: Allow QMP override to declare target already zero

2025-04-11 Thread Markus Armbruster
Eric Blake writes: > Qemu's attempts to learn whether a destination file starts life with QEMU (multiple times). > all zero contents are just a hueristic. There may be cases where the heuristic > caller is aware of information that qemu cannot learn quickly, in > which case telling qemu what

[PATCH 7/6] mirror: Allow QMP override to declare target already zero

2025-04-11 Thread Eric Blake
Qemu's attempts to learn whether a destination file starts life with all zero contents are just a hueristic. There may be cases where the caller is aware of information that qemu cannot learn quickly, in which case telling qemu what to assume about the destination can make the mirror operation fas