Re: [Libguestfs] [libnbd PATCH] info: Avoid ambiguous 'allocated' terminology in mapping

2021-06-10 Thread Eric Blake
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 06:20:31PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I think you need to update the nbdinfo.pod file as well, since there > are some references there. Yep, thanks for catching. > > As Nir says, it's unfortunate, but I guess we've got to do it. If you > push it (with docs fix

Re: [Libguestfs] [libnbd PATCH] info: Avoid ambiguous 'allocated' terminology in mapping

2021-06-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I think you need to update the nbdinfo.pod file as well, since there are some references there. As Nir says, it's unfortunate, but I guess we've got to do it. If you push it (with docs fixed) soon then I can put it into the libnbd 1.8.1 stable release. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization

Re: [libnbd PATCH] info: Avoid ambiguous 'allocated' terminology in mapping

2021-06-10 Thread Nir Soffer
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 6:03 PM Eric Blake wrote: > > Qemu has unfortunately used two distinct meanings for 'allocated' over > time, and that ambiguity has overloaded the word to make it difficult > to know which sense is meant in a given context. In one usage, > 'allocated' implies that data is

[libnbd PATCH] info: Avoid ambiguous 'allocated' terminology in mapping

2021-06-10 Thread Eric Blake
Qemu has unfortunately used two distinct meanings for 'allocated' over time, and that ambiguity has overloaded the word to make it difficult to know which sense is meant in a given context. In one usage, 'allocated' implies that data is present and occupies space on a block device (the opposite of