Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension

2016-04-10 Thread Markus Pargmann
On Tuesday 05 April 2016 22:50:51 Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 08:14:01AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 04/05/2016 03:24 AM, Markus Pargmann wrote: > > > > >> +requested. > > >> + > > >> +Th

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension

2016-04-10 Thread Markus Pargmann
On Tuesday 05 April 2016 15:50:16 Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > On 05/04/2016 11:24, Markus Pargmann wrote: > > Also it is uncertain if these status bits may change over time through > > reorganization of backend storage, for example holes may be removed in > > the backend

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Allow NBD_CMD_FLAG_NO_HOLE during NBD_CMD_WRITE

2016-04-05 Thread Markus Pargmann
Hi, On Monday 04 April 2016 16:15:43 Eric Blake wrote: > qemu already has an existing server implementation option that will > explicitly search the payload of NBD_CMD_WRITE for large blocks of > zeroes, and punch holes in the underlying file. For old clients > that don't know how to use the new

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension

2016-04-05 Thread Markus Pargmann
Hi, On Monday 04 April 2016 10:39:10 Eric Blake wrote: > With the availability of sparse storage formats, it is often needed > to query status of a particular range and read only those blocks of > data that are actually present on the block device. > > To provide such information, the patch adds

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 2/2] NBD proto: add GET_LBA_STATUS extension

2016-04-04 Thread Markus Pargmann
Hi, On Monday 28 March 2016 09:58:52 Eric Blake wrote: > On 03/25/2016 02:49 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > >> You may also want to add a rule that for all future extensions, any > >> command that requires data in the server response (other than the server > >> response to NBD_CMD_READ) must incl

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 2/2] NBD proto: add GET_LBA_STATUS extension

2016-04-04 Thread Markus Pargmann
Hi, back from my easter vacation. A bit surprised to find 200 mails in the NBD mailing list ;). On Friday 25 March 2016 09:49:29 Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 04:08:13PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 03/23/2016 08:16 AM, Denis V. Lunev wrote: > > > From: Pavel Borzenkov > >