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qcow2: Optimize write zero of unaligned tail cluster
We've already improved discards to operate efficiently on the tail of an unaligned qcow2 image; it's time to make a similar improvement to write zeroes. The special case is only valid at the tail cluster of a file, where we must recognize that any sectors beyond the image end would implicitly read as zero, and therefore should not penalize our logic for widening a partial cluster into writing the whole cluster as zero. However, note that for now, the special case of end-of-file is only recognized if there is no backing file, or if the backing file has the same length; that's because when the backing file is shorter than the active layer, we don't have code in place to recognize that reads of a sector unallocated at the top and beyond the backing end-of-file are implicitly zero. It's not much of a real loss, because most people don't use images that aren't cluster-aligned, or where the active layer is a different size than the backing layer (especially where the difference falls within a single cluster). Update test 154 to cover the new scenarios, using two images of intentionally differing length. While at it, fix the test to gracefully skip when run as ./check -qcow2 -o compat=0.10 154 since the older format lacks zero clusters already required earlier in the test. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170507000552.20847-11-eblake@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
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