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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] doc: Preallocation does not require writing zer
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Max Reitz |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] doc: Preallocation does not require writing zeroes |
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Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:10:53 +0200 |
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On 11.07.19 15:29, Max Reitz wrote:
> When preallocating an encrypted qcow2 image, it just lets the protocol
> driver write data and then does not mark the clusters as zero.
> Therefore, reading this image will yield effectively random data.
>
> As such, we have not fulfilled the promise of always writing zeroes when
> preallocating an image in a while. It seems that nobody has really
> cared, so change the documentation to conform to qemu's actual behavior.
>
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>
> ---
> qapi/block-core.json | 9 +++++----
> docs/qemu-block-drivers.texi | 4 ++--
> qemu-img.texi | 4 ++--
> 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
Thanks for the reviews, applied to my block-next branch.
Max
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