Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 0/3] qemu-img: Allow rebase with no input base

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 08.05.2019 um 16:01 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> This series allows using qemu-img rebase (without -u) on images that do
> not have a backing file.  Right now, this fails with the rather cryptic
> error message:
> 
> $ qemu-img rebase -b base.qcow2 foo.qcow2
> qemu-img: Could not open old backing file '': The 'file' block driver 
> requires a file name
> 
> Yeah, well, OK.
> 
> With how rebase currently works, this would lead to the overlay being
> filled with zeroes, however.  This is where patch 2 comes in and instead
> makes rebase use blk_pwrite_zeroes() whenever it handles an area past
> the input’s backing file’s EOF.
> 
> (Note that additionally we could try to punch holes in the overlay
> whenever it matches the new backing file, but that’s something I’ll put
> off for later.  (We don’t even have a reliable method for punching holes
> into an overlay yet, although I would like to have such because it could
> make active commit more efficient.))
> 
> And patch 3 adds the usual test.

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin