Re: [Qemu-block] null-co undefined read behavior

[Max Reitz]

On 2017-06-13 10:43, Fam Zheng wrote:
> On Tue, 06/13 09:52, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> (6) Make read-zeroes=on the default. Gives people worse performance if
>> they expect that null-co:// without any options is the fastest thing
>> possible, but it has defined behaviour by default which seems good.
> 
> Not that it really matters, but null-co:// is then a poor taste of name 
> because
> we actually gives a zero-co:// (the difference is similar to /dev/zero versus
> null_blk in Linux).

We can always claim it's just a German block driver name (and legacy of
the block layer Germanification attempt).

(German "null" == English "zero")

Sorry.

Max

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