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iotests: New test 223 for exporting dirty bitmap over NBD
authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Mon, 2 Jul 2018 19:14:58 +0000 (14:14 -0500)
committerEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Tue, 3 Jul 2018 00:50:37 +0000 (19:50 -0500)
commita1532a225a183c9fa60b9c1e8ac8a00c7771f64d
tree1b06dcc85fb145d71d5137de8d8999fb6962ccd4
parent216ee3657e14013505abe7853cecb632199fb13e
iotests: New test 223 for exporting dirty bitmap over NBD

Although this test is NOT a full test of image fleecing (as it
intentionally uses just a single block device directly exported
over NBD, rather than trying to set up a blockdev-backup job with
multiple BDS involved), it DOES prove that qemu as a server is
able to properly expose a dirty bitmap over NBD.

When coupled with image fleecing, it is then possible for a
third-party client to do an incremental backup by using
qemu-img map with the x-dirty-bitmap option to learn which parts
of the file are dirty (perhaps confusingly, they are the portions
mapped as "data":false - which is part of the reason this is
still in the x- experimental namespace), along with another
normal client (perhaps 'qemu-nbd -c' to expose the server over
/dev/nbd0 and then just use normal I/O on that block device) to
read the dirty sections.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180702191458.28741-3-eblake@redhat.com>
Tested-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
tests/qemu-iotests/223 [new file with mode: 0755]
tests/qemu-iotests/223.out [new file with mode: 0644]
tests/qemu-iotests/group