[PATCH] storage: only fallocate when allocation matches capacity

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Wed Sep 2 16:49:17 UTC 2020


On 9/2/20 3:58 PM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> In c9ec7088 "storage: extend preallocation flags support for qemu-img"
> the option to fallocate was added and meant to be active when (quote):
> "the XML described storage <allocation> matches its <capacity>"
> 
> Up until recently 81a3042a12 "storage_util: fix qemu-img sparse allocation"
> the compared allocation size was an order of magnitude too small, but still
> it does use fallocate too often unless capacity>allocation.
> 
> This change fixes the comparison to match the intended description
> of the feature.
> 
> Fixes: c9ec7088c7a3f4cd26bb471f1f243931fff6f4f9
> Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1759454
> Fixes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+source/libvirt/+bug/1847105
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> ---
>   src/storage/storage_util.c | 6 +++---
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>

And sorry for making the mess earlier (~2 years ago).

Michal




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