Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] block: add block-dirty-bitmap-populate job

2020-06-09 Thread Peter Krempa
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 16:52:45 +0200, Peter Krempa wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 23:49:17 -0400, John Snow wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is a new (very small) block job that writes a pattern into a > > bitmap. The only pattern implemented is the top allocation information. > > > > This can be

Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] block: add block-dirty-bitmap-populate job

2020-06-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 5/13/20 10:49 PM, John Snow wrote: Hi, This is a new (very small) block job that writes a pattern into a bitmap. The only pattern implemented is the top allocation information. This can be used to "recover" an incremental bitmap chain if an external snapshot was taken without creating a new

Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] block: add block-dirty-bitmap-populate job

2020-05-18 Thread Peter Krempa
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 23:49:17 -0400, John Snow wrote: > Hi, > > This is a new (very small) block job that writes a pattern into a > bitmap. The only pattern implemented is the top allocation information. > > This can be used to "recover" an incremental bitmap chain if an external > snapshot

[PATCH RFC v2 0/5] block: add block-dirty-bitmap-populate job

2020-05-13 Thread John Snow
Hi, This is a new (very small) block job that writes a pattern into a bitmap. The only pattern implemented is the top allocation information. This can be used to "recover" an incremental bitmap chain if an external snapshot was taken without creating a new bitmap first: any writes made to the