Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/2] nbd: Add new qemu:joint-allocation metadata context

Since this change is not simple, and the chance that we also get the dirty bitmap included in the result seems to be very low, I decided to check the direction of merging multiple extents. I started with merging "base:allocation" and "qemu:dirty-bitmap:xxx" since we already have both. It was not hard to do, although it is not completely tested yet. Here is the merging code: https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/ovirt-imageio/+/115216/1/daemon/ovirt_imageio/... To make merging easy and safe, we map the NBD_STATE_DIRTY bit to a private bit so it cannot clash with the NBD_STATE_HOLE bit: https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/ovirt-imageio/+/115215/1/daemon/ovirt_imageio/... Here is a functional test using qemu-nbd showing that it works: https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/ovirt-imageio/+/115216/1/daemon/test/client_te... I'll try to use "qemu:allocation-depth" in a similar way next week, probably mapping depth > 0 to EXTENT_EXISTS, to use when reporting holes in single qcow2 images. If this is successful, we can start using this in the next ovirt release, and we don't need "qemu:joint-allocation".