Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make blockdev-mirror dest sparse in more cases

2025-04-11 Thread Eric Blake
On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 08:04:50PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > When mirroring images, it makes sense for the destination to be sparse > even if it was not connected with "discard":"unmap"; the only time the > destination should be fully allocated is if the user pre-allocated it, > or if the source w

[PATCH 0/6] Make blockdev-mirror dest sparse in more cases

2025-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
When mirroring images, it makes sense for the destination to be sparse even if it was not connected with "discard":"unmap"; the only time the destination should be fully allocated is if the user pre-allocated it, or if the source was not sparse. Eric Blake (6): mirror: Skip pre-zeroing destinati