On Thu 26 Apr 2018 04:51:28 AM CEST, Eric Blake wrote:
> If you have a capable file system (tmpfs is good, ext4 not so much;
> run ./check with TEST_DIR pointing to a good location so as not
> to skip the test), it's actually possible to create a qcow2 file
> that expands to a sparse 512T image with just over 38M of content.
> The test is not the world's fastest (qemu crawling through 256M
> bits of refcount table to find the next cluster to allocate takes
> several seconds, as does qemu-img check reporting millions of
> leaked clusters); but it DOES catch the problem that the previous
> patch just fixed where writing a compressed cluster to a full
> image ended up overwriting the wrong cluster.
>
> Suggested-by: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>

Nice test :-)

Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <be...@igalia.com>

Berto

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