On 27.02.2020 16:48, Eric Blake wrote:
On 2/27/20 1:29 AM, Denis Plotnikov wrote:
The patch adds some preparation parts for incompatible compression type
feature to Qcow2 that indicates which allow to use different compression
to qcow2, allowing the use of different
methods for image clus
On 2/27/20 8:30 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
But what is the benefit? We have already documented padding in the
spec, and discussed it so much time... What is the problem with
padding? And why to add 8 bytes for every new feature which needs
only one byte?
Okay, so requiring an 8-
27.02.2020 17:13, Eric Blake wrote:
On 2/27/20 7:59 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
Hmm - I think it may be worth a tweak to qcow2.txt to call out:
104: compression_type
105 - 111: padding, must be 0
or else call out:
104-111: compression type
and just blindly use all 8 bytes for th
On 2/27/20 7:59 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
Hmm - I think it may be worth a tweak to qcow2.txt to call out:
104: compression_type
105 - 111: padding, must be 0
or else call out:
104-111: compression type
and just blindly use all 8 bytes for the value even though really only
1 or
27.02.2020 16:48, Eric Blake wrote:
On 2/27/20 1:29 AM, Denis Plotnikov wrote:
The patch adds some preparation parts for incompatible compression type
feature to Qcow2 that indicates which allow to use different compression
to qcow2, allowing the use of different
methods for image clusters (
On 2/27/20 1:29 AM, Denis Plotnikov wrote:
The patch adds some preparation parts for incompatible compression type
feature to Qcow2 that indicates which allow to use different compression
to qcow2, allowing the use of different
methods for image clusters (de)compressing.
It is implied that t
On 2/27/20 2:21 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
27.02.2020 10:29, Denis Plotnikov wrote:
The patch adds some preparation parts for incompatible compression type
feature to Qcow2 that indicates which allow to use different compression
methods for image clusters (de)compressing.
It is imp
27.02.2020 10:29, Denis Plotnikov wrote:
The patch adds some preparation parts for incompatible compression type
feature to Qcow2 that indicates which allow to use different compression
methods for image clusters (de)compressing.
It is implied that the compression type is set on the image creati
The patch adds some preparation parts for incompatible compression type
feature to Qcow2 that indicates which allow to use different compression
methods for image clusters (de)compressing.
It is implied that the compression type is set on the image creation and
can be changed only later by image c
