This adds an incompatible bit indicating corruption to qcow2. Any image
with this bit set may not be written to unless for repairing (and
subsequently clearing the bit if the repair has been successful).
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Lazy refcounts is a performance optimization for qcow2 that postpones
refcount metadata updates and instead marks the image dirty. In the
case of crash or power failure the image will be left in a dirty state
and repaired next time it is opened.
Reducing metadata I/O is important for cache=writethrough and
cache=directsync because these modes guarantee that data is on disk
after each write (hence we cannot take advantage of caching updates in
RAM). Refcount metadata is not needed for guest->file block address
translation and therefore does not need to be on-disk at the time of
write completion - this is the motivation behind the lazy refcount
optimization.
The lazy refcount optimization must be enabled at image creation time:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compat=1.1,lazy_refcounts=on a.qcow2 10G
qemu-system-x86_64 -drive if=virtio,file=a.qcow2,cache=writethrough
Update qemu-iotests 031 and 036 since the extension header size changes
when we add feature bit table entries.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This patch adds an incompatible feature bit to mark images that have not
been closed cleanly. When a dirty image file is opened a consistency
check and repair is performed.
Update qemu-iotests 031 and 036 since the extension header size changes
when we add feature bit table entries.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
qcow2.py must be updated to work with version 3 images at all, the
output has changed since the feature table extension has been added, and
version 2 and version 3 images can't possibly have the same test output.
Change the test case to completely ignore IMGOPTS and run the test for
both compat=1.1 and compat=0.10 regardless of the ./check command line.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Some image formats do have a cluster size, others don't, but there are
tests that work with both sets of images and currently we get failures
because the qemu-img create output doesn't mention the cluster size for
some formats.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The immportant thing here is that header extensions don't get silently
dropped when the header is rewritten, e.g. during a rebase.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
