On 2/5/20 5:02 AM, David Edmondson wrote:
In many cases the target of a convert operation is a newly provisioned
target that the user knows is blank (reads as zero). In this situation
there is no requirement for qemu-img to wastefully zero out the entire
device.
Add a new option, --target-is-zero, allowing the user to indicate that
an existing target device will return zeros for all reads.
Signed-off-by: David Edmondson <david.edmond...@oracle.com>
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docs/interop/qemu-img.rst | 9 ++++++++-
qemu-img-cmds.hx | 4 ++--
qemu-img.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
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