Re: [PULL 06/18] qemu-img: Add --target-is-zero to convert

2020-02-20 Thread David Edmondson
On Thursday, 2020-02-20 at 10:36:04 -06, Eric Blake wrote: > On 2/20/20 10:06 AM, Max Reitz wrote: >> From: David Edmondson >> >> In many cases the target of a convert operation is a newly provisioned >> target that the user knows is blank (reads as zero). In this situation >> there is no requir

Re: [PULL 06/18] qemu-img: Add --target-is-zero to convert

2020-02-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 2/20/20 10:06 AM, Max Reitz wrote: From: David Edmondson In many cases the target of a convert operation is a newly provisioned target that the user knows is blank (reads as zero). In this situation there is no requirement for qemu-img to wastefully zero out the entire device. Add a new opt

[PULL 06/18] qemu-img: Add --target-is-zero to convert

2020-02-20 Thread Max Reitz
From: David Edmondson In many cases the target of a convert operation is a newly provisioned target that the user knows is blank (reads as zero). In this situation there is no requirement for qemu-img to wastefully zero out the entire device. Add a new option, --target-is-zero, allowing the user