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'qemu-img map' provides a way to determine which extents of an image come from the top layer vs. inherited from a backing chain. This is useful information worth exposing over NBD. There is a proposal to add a QMP command block-dirty-bitmap-populate which can create a dirty bitmap that reflects allocation information, at which point the qemu:dirty-bitmap:NAME metadata context can expose that information via the creation of a temporary bitmap, but we can shorten the effort by adding a new qemu:allocation-depth metadata context that does the same thing without an intermediate bitmap (this patch does not eliminate the need for that proposal, as it will have other uses as well). While documenting things, remember that although the NBD protocol has NBD_OPT_SET_META_CONTEXT, the rest of its documentation refers to 'metadata context', which is a more apt description of what is actually being used by NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS: the user is requesting metadata by passing one or more context names. So I also touched up some existing wording to prefer the term 'metadata context' where it makes sense. Note that this patch does not actually enable any way to request a server to enable this context; that will come in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20201027050556.269064-10-eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> |
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