On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:44:26AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 09:35:15AM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:54:29PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 28.07.2014 um 10:48 hat Hu Tao geschrieben:
ping...
All the 6 patches have reviewed-by now.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 01:18:30PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:00:08PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
What is proposed to be called 'preallocation=falloc' should fall back
to other methods (eg. writing random, writing zeroes). It should
also be called something more
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 01:18:30PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
What if user cares about time(writing zeroes or non-zeroes is
time-consuming) and wants falloc only sometimes? I think this is the
main difference between preallocation=falloc and preallocation=full.
Also posix_fallocate in glibc falls
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:00:08PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:53:22PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 22.08.2014 um 17:34 hat Richard W.M. Jones geschrieben:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:22:33PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
It's still useful because it happens to
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:54:29PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 28.07.2014 um 10:48 hat Hu Tao geschrieben:
ping...
All the 6 patches have reviewed-by now.
Looks mostly good to me, I have only a few minor comments that wouldn't
block inclusion but could be addressed in follow-up
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:00:08PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:53:22PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 22.08.2014 um 17:34 hat Richard W.M. Jones geschrieben:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:22:33PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
It's still useful because it happens to
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 04:48:46PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
ping...
All the 6 patches have reviewed-by now.
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 02:09:57PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
This series adds two preallocation mode to qcow2 and raw:
Option preallocation=full preallocates disk space for image by
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 01:25:56PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 04:48:46PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
ping...
All the 6 patches have reviewed-by now.
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 02:09:57PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
This series adds two preallocation mode to qcow2 and
Am 22.08.2014 um 14:25 hat Richard W.M. Jones geschrieben:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 04:48:46PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
ping...
All the 6 patches have reviewed-by now.
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 02:09:57PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
This series adds two preallocation mode to qcow2 and raw:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 03:13:31PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 22.08.2014 um 14:25 hat Richard W.M. Jones geschrieben:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 04:48:46PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
ping...
All the 6 patches have reviewed-by now.
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 02:09:57PM +0800, Hu Tao
Am 22.08.2014 um 16:20 hat Daniel P. Berrange geschrieben:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 03:13:31PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 22.08.2014 um 14:25 hat Richard W.M. Jones geschrieben:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 04:48:46PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
ping...
All the 6 patches have
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:22:33PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
It's still useful because it happens to reduce the overhead in most
implementations and it's a relatively quick operation, but the best way
I know of to actually _fully_ preallocate is still writing zeros. Which
of the two the user
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 04:34:40PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
- really really try as hard as possible to make sure that future
allocations will never fail (ie. write random non-zero data to the
file)
s/will never fail/are not needed and will never fail/
Rich.
--
Richard Jones,
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:53:22PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 22.08.2014 um 17:34 hat Richard W.M. Jones geschrieben:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:22:33PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
It's still useful because it happens to reduce the overhead in most
implementations and it's a relatively
Am 22.08.2014 um 17:34 hat Richard W.M. Jones geschrieben:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:22:33PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
It's still useful because it happens to reduce the overhead in most
implementations and it's a relatively quick operation, but the best way
I know of to actually _fully_
ping...
All the 6 patches have reviewed-by now.
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 02:09:57PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
This series adds two preallocation mode to qcow2 and raw:
Option preallocation=full preallocates disk space for image by writing
zeros to disk, this ensures disk space in any cases.
This series adds two preallocation mode to qcow2 and raw:
Option preallocation=full preallocates disk space for image by writing
zeros to disk, this ensures disk space in any cases.
Option preallocation=falloc preallocates disk space by calling
posix_fallocate(). This is faster than
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