Re: [PATCH] qcow2: set bdi->is_dirty

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 04.05.2021 um 18:06 hat Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy geschrieben:
> Set bdi->is_dirty, so that qemu-img info could show dirty flag.
> 
> After this commit the following check will show '"dirty-flag": true':
> 
> ./build/qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o lazy_refcounts=on x 1M
> ./build/qemu-io x
> qemu-io> write 0 1M
> 
>  After "write" command success, kill the qemu-io process:
> 
> kill -9 <qemu-io pid>
> 
> ./build/qemu-img info --output=json x
> 
> This will show '"dirty-flag": true' among other things. (before this
> commit it shows '"dirty-flag": false')
> 
> Note, that qcow2's dirty-bit is not a "dirty bit for the image". It
> only protects qcow2 lazy refcounts feature. So, there are a lot of
> conditions when qcow2 session may be not closed correctly, but bit is
> 0. Still, when bit is set, the last session is definitely not finished
> correctly and it's better to report it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin