package qcow-tool

0.10.0 (2017-05-13)

• fix a major performance problem with compact

• split into 2 packages: qcow and qcow-tool

• add qcow-tool dehydrate and qcow-tool rehydrate for extracting metadata for debug/support

• add prometheus metrics for I/O and GC operations

• restore the qcow-tool compact --progress progress bar

• add qcow-tool compact --progress-fd for json-formatted progress

• build via jbuilder

0.9.5 (2017-03-12)

• CLI: check and sha will nolonger resize the file as a side-effect (#84)

• Allow the number of cluster_bits to be set in create

0.9.4 (2017-03-07)

• Strictly enforce the cluster move state machine

• Don't start moving new blocks while existing moves are in progress (fix bug where the same destination block could be reused)

• Hold a lock to exclude flush while updating references to ensure reference updates hit the disk before the move is considered complete

• Simplify allocator by always adding blocks to the Roots set before returning. The caller must transfer them somewhere else.

• Simplify the cluster moving API by combining get_moves with start_moves, so it's not possible to block and affect the moves which can legally be started

• When detecting a duplicate reference or hitting an I/O error, log analysis of the internal state

• Check for move cancellation before copying a block to avoid accidentally copying a block which is now outside the file

• Avoid adding a cluster to the Junk set twice during a reference update

• Add lots of assertions

0.9.3 (2017-03-02)

• Hold a read lock on the L1 during read/write

• Minimise locking while updating references

• When moving an L2 cluster, update the cluster map

0.9.2 (2017-02-26)

• Don't hold the global lock while updating references

• Log an error if a client I/O takes more than 30s

• Improve the performance of discard by writing each L2 cluster to disk only once

• Track clusters which are being erased and copied into, to prevent the file being shrunk, orphaning them (which typically manifests as a later double-allocation)

0.9.1 (2017-02-25)

• Add configuration runtime_assert to check GC invariants at runtime

• Use tail-recursive calls in the block recycler (which deals with large block lists)

• Wait for the compaction work list to stabilise before processing it (otherwise we move blocks which are then immediately discarded)

• Track the difference between blocks on the end of the file being full of zeroes due to ftruncate versus being full of junk due to discard

• On open, truncate the file to erase trailing junk

• Don't try to use free space between header structures for user data since we assume all blocks after the start of free space are movable and header blocks aren't (in this implementation)

• Make cluster locks recursive, hold relevant metadata read locks while reading or writing data clusters to ensure they aren't moved while we're using them.

• Add a debug testing mode and use it in a test case to verify that compact mid-write works as expected.

0.9.0 (2017-02-21)

• Add online coalescing mode and background cluster recycling thread

• Rename internal modules and types

• Ensure the interval tree remains balanced to improve performance

0.8.1 (2017-02-13)

• fix error in META file

0.8.0 (2017-02-13)

• update to Mirage 3 APIs

• now requires OCaml 4.03+

• ensure the interval tree is kept balanced

0.7.2 (2016-12-21)

• if discard is not enabled, fail discard calls

• if discard is enabled, enable lazy-refcounts and zero refcount clusters to avoid breaking refcounts over discard, compact

0.7.1 (2016-12-15)

• speed up check and compact up to 50x

• qcow-tool compact work around files which aren't a whole number of sectors

0.7.0 (2016-12-10)

• now functorised over TIME

• allow background compact to be cancelled

• cancel background compact to allow regular I/O to go through

• don't trigger the background compact until 1s after the last discard

• on connect, sanity-check the image

0.6.0 (2016-12-04)

• rename ocamlfind package from qcow-format to qcow for uniformity

• add support for runtime configuration arguments to connect and create

• add support for discard (aka TRIM or UNMAP) and online compaction (through a stop-the-world GC)

• switch the build from oasis to topkg (thanks to @jgimenez)

0.5.0 (2016-11-26)

• resize now takes a new size in bytes (rather than sectors) and uses a labelled argument

• qcow-tool info now takes a --filter <expression> for example qcow-tool info ... --filter .size to view the virtual size

0.4.2 (2016-09-21)

• Don't break the build if Block.connect has optional arguments

0.4.1 (2016-08-17)

• Remove one necessary source of flush calls

• CLI: add mapped command to list the mapped regions of a file

0.4 (2016-08-03)

• For buffered block devices, call flush to guarantee metadata correctness

• In lazy_refcounts mode (the default), do not compute any refcounts

• CLI: the repair command should recompute refcounts

0.3 (2016-05-12)

• Depend on ppx, require OCaml 4.02+

0.2 (2016-01-15)

• Use qcow version 3 by default, setting lazy_refcount=on

• Unit tests now verify that qemu-img check is happy and that qemu-nbd sees the same data we wrote

0.1 (2015-11-09)

• initial V1_LWT.BLOCK support

• caches metadata for performance

• CLI tool for manipulating images

• supports the seek_mapped seek_unmapped interface for iterating over sparse regions