From: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
To: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com>,
qemu-block@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] qcow2: Require that the virtual size is a multiple of the sector size
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:20:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <w51v9peb2dz.fsf@maestria.local.igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd6ca991-c2f7-0e27-5bee-07a7c53f8a8e@redhat.com>
On Tue 14 Jan 2020 02:01:03 PM CET, Max Reitz wrote:
>> However when an image is opened the virtual size is rounded down,
>> which means that trying to access the last few advertised bytes will
>> result in an error. As seen above QEMU cannot create such images and
>> there's no good use case that would require us to try to handle them
>> so let's just treat them as unsupported.
>
> But isn’t that just a bug in qemu?
Yes, but does it make sense to try to support images with unaligned
sizes if no one is going to create them ever and QEMU cannot even
generate them?
Berto
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-14 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-09 19:12 [PATCH v2 0/4] qcow2: Misc BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE updates Alberto Garcia
2020-01-09 19:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] qcow2: Require that the virtual size is a multiple of the sector size Alberto Garcia
2020-01-14 13:01 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-14 13:20 ` Alberto Garcia [this message]
2020-01-14 13:47 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-14 13:58 ` Alberto Garcia
2020-01-14 14:03 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-16 14:24 ` Alberto Garcia
2020-01-09 19:13 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] qcow2: Don't round the L1 table allocation up to " Alberto Garcia
2020-01-14 13:46 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-09 19:13 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] qcow2: Tighten cluster_offset alignment assertions Alberto Garcia
2020-01-10 12:14 ` Alberto Garcia
2020-01-14 13:58 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-14 13:56 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-09 19:13 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] qcow2: Use BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE instead of the hardcoded value Alberto Garcia
2020-01-14 14:15 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-16 23:26 ` Alberto Garcia
2020-01-17 9:12 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-17 9:55 ` Kevin Wolf
2020-01-17 11:01 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-17 11:51 ` Kevin Wolf
2020-01-17 14:34 ` Alberto Garcia
2020-01-18 18:07 ` Alberto Garcia
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