Eric: This seems like a bug in nbdkit, but this patch just does the
easy fix. What do you think?
Two other filters can return NBDKIT_ZERO_EMULATE:
filters/ext2/ext2.c: return NBDKIT_ZERO_EMULATE;
filters/nozero/nozero.c: return NBDKIT_ZERO_EMULATE;
nbdkit-ext2-filter doesn't crash, but it doesn't emulate either and it
seems broken. It calls down to the underlying plugin (which will
either emulate or true zero). I believe it may be zeroing a random
offset in the underlying disk.
Rich.