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Re: [Qemu-devel] write_zeroes/trim on the whole disk
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Denis V. Lunev |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] write_zeroes/trim on the whole disk |
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Sat, 24 Sep 2016 10:54:37 +0300 |
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On 09/24/2016 12:21 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 02:00:06PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
>> My preference would be a new flag to the existing commands, with
>> explicit documentation that 0 offset and 0 length must be used with that
>> flag, when requesting a full-device wipe.
> Alternatively, what about a flag that says "if you use this flag, the
> size should be left-shifted by X bits before processing"? That allows
> you to do TRIM or WRITE_ZEROES on much larger chunks, without being
> limited to "whole disk" commands. We should probably make it an illegal
> flag for any command that actually sends data over the wire, though.
>
interesting. Actually I like this ;)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] write_zeroes/trim on the whole disk, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] write_zeroes/trim on the whole disk, Alex Bligh, 2016/09/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] write_zeroes/trim on the whole disk, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy, 2016/09/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] write_zeroes/trim on the whole disk, Alex Bligh, 2016/09/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] write_zeroes/trim on the whole disk, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy, 2016/09/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] write_zeroes/trim on the whole disk, Alex Bligh, 2016/09/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] write_zeroes/trim on the whole disk, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy, 2016/09/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] write_zeroes/trim on the whole disk, Wouter Verhelst, 2016/09/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] write_zeroes/trim on the whole disk, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy, 2016/09/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] write_zeroes/trim on the whole disk, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger, 2016/09/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] write_zeroes/trim on the whole disk, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy, 2016/09/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] write_zeroes/trim on the whole disk,
Denis V. Lunev <=