δΊ 2013-7-17 0:57, Paolo Bonzini ει:
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Il 16/07/2013 18:56, Eric Blake ha scritto:
On 07/16/2013 10:29 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
This series adds a subcommand to "map" that can dump file
metadata. Metadata that is dumped includes:
- whether blocks are allocated in bs->file and, if so, where
- whether blocks are zero
- whether data is read from bs or bs->backing_hd
Is this command only usable from qemu-img, or is there a QMP
counterpart for getting at the same information on a live image
while qemu is running?
Not yet, we had no use case yet. It may be exposed later to the
guests via the SCSI command GET LBA STATUS.
Paolo
I think dump of allocated info in qemu-img in this series, can do
dirty change tracking job for backing chain snapshot now, qemu's QMP
interface is not very needed.
Only thing not perfect, is that it talks with string. A library would
be better, but I am not selling libqblock:), instead I'd like to form
a better and clean library so want to adjust qemu's block layer first.
Metadata is dumped for an entire chain of images. One example
usage is (for non-compressed, non-encrypted images) to transform
the metadata into a Linux device-mapper setup, and make a qcow2
image available (for read only) as a block device. Another
possible usage is to determine the used areas of a file, and
convert it in place to another format. Alternatively, the richer
data can be used by block jobs to quickly determine if a block is
zero without reading it.
Definitely useful information! I haven't looked at the
implementation yet, but there had better be a JSON representation
of the output :)
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