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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/5] block: vdi - use block layer ops in vdi_


From: Max Reitz
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/5] block: vdi - use block layer ops in vdi_create, instead of posix calls
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 22:14:58 +0200
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On 21.07.2014 21:52, Jeff Cody wrote:
Use the block layer to create, and write to, the image file in the
VDI .bdrv_create() operation.

This has a couple of benefits: Images can now be created over protocols,
and hacks such as NOCOW are not needed in the image format driver, and
the underlying file protocol appropriate for the host OS can be relied

This sounds a bit strange to me, but I don't know if it's wrong.

upon.

Also some minor cleanup for error handling.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
---
  block/vdi.c | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------------
  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/vdi.c b/block/vdi.c
index 197bd77..5fd9d5f 100644
--- a/block/vdi.c
+++ b/block/vdi.c
@@ -681,7 +681,6 @@ static int vdi_co_write(BlockDriverState *bs,

Anyway:

Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>



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