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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/8] qemu-img: add measure sub-command
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Nir Soffer |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/8] qemu-img: add measure sub-command |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:29:07 +0000 |
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 2:28 PM Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> v3:
> * Drop RFC, this is ready to go for QEMU 2.10
> * Use "required size" instead of "required bytes" in qemu-img output for
> consistency [Nir]
> * Clarify BlockMeasureInfo semantics [Max]
> * Clarify bdrv_measure() opts argument and error handling [Nir]
> * Handle -o backing_file= for qcow2 [Max]
> * Handle snapshot options in qemu-img measure
> * Probe input image for allocated data clusters for qcow2. Didn't
> centralize
> this because there are format-specific aspects such as the
> cluster_size. It
> may make sense to centralize it later (with a bit more complexity) if
> support is added to more formats.
> * Add qemu-img(1) man page section for 'measure' sub-command [Max]
> * Extend test case to cover additional scenarios [Nir]
>
> RFCv2:
> * Publishing RFC again to discuss the new user-visible interfaces. Code
> has
> changed quite a bit, I have not kept any Reviewed-by tags.
> * Rename qemu-img sub-command "measure" and API bdrv_measure() [Nir]
> * Report both "required bytes" and "fully allocated bytes" to handle the
> empty
> image file and prealloc use cases [Nir and Dan]
> * Use bdrv_getlength() instead of bdrv_nb_sectors() [Berto]
> * Rename "err" label "out" in qemu-img-cmds.c [Nir]
> * Add basic qcow2 support, doesn't support qemu-img convert from existing
> files yet
>
> RFCv1:
> * Publishing patch series with just raw support, no qcow2 yet. Please
> review
> the command-line interface and let me know if you are happy with this
> approach.
>
> Users and management tools sometimes need to know the size required for a
> new
> disk image so that an LVM volume, SAN LUN, etc can be allocated ahead of
> time.
> Image formats like qcow2 have non-trivial metadata that makes it hard to
> estimate the exact size without knowledge of file format internals.
>
> This patch series introduces a new qemu-img sub-command that calculates the
> required size for both image creation and conversion scenarios.
>
> The conversion scenario is:
>
> $ qemu-img measure -f raw -O qcow2 input.img
> required size: 1327680
> fully allocated size: 1074069504
>
> Here an existing image file is taken and the output includes the space
> required
> for data from the input image file.
>
> The creation scenario is:
>
> $ qemu-img measure -O qcow2 --size 5G
> required size: 327680
> fully allocated size: 1074069504
>
> Stefan Hajnoczi (8):
> block: add bdrv_measure() API
> raw-format: add bdrv_measure() support
> qcow2: extract preallocation calculation function
> qcow2: extract image creation option parsing
> qcow2: add bdrv_measure() support
> qemu-img: add measure subcommand
> qemu-iotests: support per-format golden output files
> iotests: add test 178 for qemu-img measure
>
> qapi/block-core.json | 25 +++
> include/block/block.h | 4 +
> include/block/block_int.h | 2 +
> block.c | 35 ++++
> block/qcow2.c | 362
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> block/raw-format.c | 22 +++
> qemu-img.c | 227 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> qemu-img-cmds.hx | 6 +
> qemu-img.texi | 25 +++
> tests/qemu-iotests/178 | 144 ++++++++++++++++
> tests/qemu-iotests/178.out.qcow2 | 242 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> tests/qemu-iotests/178.out.raw | 130 ++++++++++++++
> tests/qemu-iotests/check | 5 +
> tests/qemu-iotests/group | 1 +
> 14 files changed, 1136 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)
> create mode 100755 tests/qemu-iotests/178
> create mode 100644 tests/qemu-iotests/178.out.qcow2
> create mode 100644 tests/qemu-iotests/178.out.raw
>
> --
> 2.9.3
>
Stefan, is this available in some public git repo?
I would like to test it, and downloading and applying 8 patches is lot of
work.
(I'm probably not using the right tools for this).
Nir
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/8] qemu-img: add measure sub-command, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/03/22
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/8] raw-format: add bdrv_measure() support, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/03/22
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/8] qcow2: extract preallocation calculation function, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/03/22
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/8] qcow2: extract image creation option parsing, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/03/22
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 5/8] qcow2: add bdrv_measure() support, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/03/22
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/8] block: add bdrv_measure() API, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/03/22
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 6/8] qemu-img: add measure subcommand, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/03/22
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 7/8] qemu-iotests: support per-format golden output files, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/03/22
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 8/8] iotests: add test 178 for qemu-img measure, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/03/22
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