Hi! This is my counter-propasal on "[PATCH 0/5] block/qcow2-bitmap: Enable resize with persistent bitmaps" by John.
It does bitmap resize, but don't flush bitmaps during resize, postponing this controversial thing. Based-on: https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu bitmaps John Snow (2): block/qcow2-bitmap: Allow resizes with persistent bitmaps tests/qemu-iotests: add bitmap resize test 246 Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy (2): docs/interop/qcow2: Improve bitmap flag in_use specification block/qcow2-bitmap: Don't check size for IN_USE bitmap docs/interop/qcow2.txt | 18 ++- block/qcow2.h | 1 + block/qcow2-bitmap.c | 67 ++++++++- block/qcow2.c | 4 +- tests/qemu-iotests/246 | 114 ++++++++++++++ tests/qemu-iotests/246.out | 295 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ tests/qemu-iotests/group | 1 + 7 files changed, 491 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) create mode 100755 tests/qemu-iotests/246 create mode 100644 tests/qemu-iotests/246.out -- 2.18.0
