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2020 Feb 12
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Re: Cross-project NBD extension proposal: NBD_INFO_INIT_STATE
...16 bits feature bits. Therefore the only way to go from there is to have 32 feature bits but an awkward unaligned 6 byte structure, or 48 feature bits (8 byte structure). I guess given those constraints we can stick with 16 feature bits, and if we ever needed more then we'd have to introduce NBD_INFO_INIT_STATE2. The only thing I can think of which might be useful is a "fully preallocated" bit which might be used as an indication that writes are fast and are unlikely to fail with ENOSPC. > Are we in agreement that > my addition of an NBD_INFO_ response to NBD_OPT_GO is the best way > t...
2020 Feb 12
2
Re: Cross-project NBD extension proposal: NBD_INFO_INIT_STATE
Hi, On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 10:52:55PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > But anyway ... could a flag indicating that the whole image is sparse > be useful, either as well as NBD_INIT_SPARSE or instead of it? You > could use it to avoid an initial disk trim, which is something that > mke2fs does: Yeah, I think that could definitely be useful. I honestly can't see a use for