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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 14:09:09 +0100

Subject: [PATCH 21/50] qemu-img: add support for fully allocated images

RH-Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Message-id: <1386598178-11845-24-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>

Patchwork-id: 56060

O-Subject: [RHEL 7.0 qemu-kvm PATCH 23/52] qemu-img: add support for fully allocated images

Bugzilla: 1007815

RH-Acked-by: Jeffrey Cody <jcody@redhat.com>

RH-Acked-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>

RH-Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

From: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>

Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

(cherry picked from commit 11b6699af59b8684128debacfc7c44cbaa6ac53b)

---

 qemu-img.c    | 10 +++++++---

 qemu-img.texi |  6 ++++++

 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>

---

 qemu-img.c    | 10 +++++++---

 qemu-img.texi |  6 ++++++

 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qemu-img.c b/qemu-img.c

index fa0fd0e..dfd8a92 100644

--- a/qemu-img.c

+++ b/qemu-img.c

@@ -99,8 +99,12 @@ static void help(void)

            "  '-h' with or without a command shows this help and lists the supported formats\n"

            "  '-p' show progress of command (only certain commands)\n"

            "  '-q' use Quiet mode - do not print any output (except errors)\n"

-           "  '-S' indicates the consecutive number of bytes that must contain only zeros\n"

-           "       for qemu-img to create a sparse image during conversion\n"

+           "  '-S' indicates the consecutive number of bytes (defaults to 4k) that must\n"

+           "       contain only zeros for qemu-img to create a sparse image during\n"

+           "       conversion. If the number of bytes is 0, the source will not be scanned for\n"

+           "       unallocated or zero sectors, and the destination image will always be\n"

+           "       fully allocated\n"

+           "       images will always be fully allocated\n"

            "  '--output' takes the format in which the output must be done (human or json)\n"

            "  '-n' skips the target volume creation (useful if the volume is created\n"

            "       prior to running qemu-img)\n"

@@ -1463,7 +1467,7 @@ static int img_convert(int argc, char **argv)

         /* signal EOF to align */

         bdrv_write_compressed(out_bs, 0, NULL, 0);

     } else {

-        int has_zero_init = bdrv_has_zero_init(out_bs);

+        int has_zero_init = min_sparse ? bdrv_has_zero_init(out_bs) : 0;

         sector_num = 0; // total number of sectors converted so far

         nb_sectors = total_sectors - sector_num;

diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi

index 43ee4eb..dc578bb 100644

--- a/qemu-img.texi

+++ b/qemu-img.texi

@@ -193,6 +193,12 @@ Image conversion is also useful to get smaller image when using a

 growable format such as @code{qcow} or @code{cow}: the empty sectors

 are detected and suppressed from the destination image.

+@var{sparse_size} indicates the consecutive number of bytes (defaults to 4k)

+that must contain only zeros for qemu-img to create a sparse image during

+conversion. If @var{sparse_size} is 0, the source will not be scanned for

+unallocated or zero sectors, and the destination image will always be

+fully allocated.

+

 You can use the @var{backing_file} option to force the output image to be

 created as a copy on write image of the specified base image; the

 @var{backing_file} should have the same content as the input's base image,

-- 

1.7.11.7