Re: [PATCH v3 5/9] blockdev: Split off basic bitmap operations for qemu-img

2020-05-11 Thread Max Reitz
On 08.05.20 20:03, Eric Blake wrote: > Upcoming patches want to add some basic bitmap manipulation abilities > to qemu-img. But blockdev.o is too heavyweight to link into qemu-img > (among other things, it would drag in block jobs and transaction > support - qemu-img does offline manipulation,

[PATCH v3 5/9] blockdev: Split off basic bitmap operations for qemu-img

2020-05-08 Thread Eric Blake
Upcoming patches want to add some basic bitmap manipulation abilities to qemu-img. But blockdev.o is too heavyweight to link into qemu-img (among other things, it would drag in block jobs and transaction support - qemu-img does offline manipulation, where atomicity is less important because there