[pve-devel] [PATCH v2 qemu 2/2] vma: allow partial restore

Wolfgang Bumiller w.bumiller at proxmox.com
Mon Apr 25 08:40:28 CEST 2022


On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 01:26:48PM +0200, Fabian Ebner wrote:
> Introduce a new map line for skipping a certain drive, of the form
> skip=drive-scsi0
> 
> Since in PVE, most archives are compressed and piped to vma for
> restore, it's not easily possible to skip reads.
> 
> For the reader, a new skip flag for VmaRestoreState is added and the
> target is allowed to be NULL if skip is specified when registering. If
> the skip flag is set, no writes will be made as well as no check for
> duplicate clusters. Therefore, the flag is not set for verify.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabian Ebner <f.ebner at proxmox.com>

Acked-by: Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller at proxmox.com>





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