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Two hopefully useful additions to the fua filter. The second one is kind of like cache=unsafe in qemu, in that it exchanges correctness for speed. Useful for data which is easily recreated in the event of a crash or for people who like living on the edge and have good backups. Rich.

...de=force disk.img + =back =head1 FILES diff --git a/filters/fua/fua.c b/filters/fua/fua.c index 6bc62a02..229d83db 100644 --- a/filters/fua/fua.c +++ b/filters/fua/fua.c @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ static enum FuaMode { NATIVE, FORCE, PASS, + DISCARD, } fuamode; static int @@ -64,6 +65,8 @@ fua_config (nbdkit_next_config *next, void *nxdata, fuamode = FORCE; else if (strcmp (value, "pass") == 0) fuamode = PASS; + else if (strcmp (value, "discard") == 0) + fuamode = DISCARD; else { nbdkit_error ("unknown fuamode '%s'", v...

...b/filters/fua/fua.c @@ -233,7 +233,6 @@ fua_zero (struct nbdkit_next_ops *next_ops, void *nxdata, static struct nbdkit_filter filter = { .name = "fua", .longname = "nbdkit fua filter", - .version = PACKAGE_VERSION, .config = fua_config, .config_help = fua_config_help, .prepare = fua_prepare, diff --git a/filters/log/log.c b/filters/log/log.c index 7cf741e1..6d37d583 100644 --- a/filters/log/log.c +++ b/filters/log/log.c @@ -435,7 +435,6 @@ log_cache (struct nbdkit_next_ops *next_ops, void *nxdata, static st...

After more than a month since v2 [1], I've finally got my FUA support series polished. This is all of my outstanding patches, even though some of them were originally posted in separate threads from the original FUA post [2], [3] [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-January/msg00113.html [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-January/msg00219.html [3]