Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] doc: Propose NBD_FLAG_INIT_ZEROES extension

Hi Eric, I'm not opposed to this proposal, per se, but there seems to be some disagreement (by Kevin, for instance) on whether this extension is at all useful. If you can clarify that, I'll be happy to merge it. On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 05:42:35PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > While not directly

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] doc: Propose NBD_FLAG_INIT_ZEROES extension

> On 6 Dec 2016, at 08:46, Alex Bligh wrote: > > I would support this. > > In fact the patch is sufficiently simple I think I'd merge this > into extension-write-zeroes then merge that into master. Hence: Reviewed-By: Alex Bligh -- Alex Bligh

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] doc: Propose NBD_FLAG_INIT_ZEROES extension

> On 5 Dec 2016, at 23:42, Eric Blake wrote: > > While not directly related to NBD_CMD_WRITE_ZEROES, the qemu > team discovered that it is useful if a server can advertise > whether an export is in a known-all-zeroes state at the time > the client connects. I think this is