Re: bmap/strategy for vnd backing file

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost (Manuel Bouyer) writes:

>at run time. The cost of a bmap/strategy failure would be low as there
>would be no I/O involved.

You can just evaluate when bmap/strategy will fail (bad size or alignment)
and fall back to read/write. The more tricky part is to combine that with
the throttling for the read/write case.

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