vmdk: add support for “zeroed‐grain” GTE
Introduced support for zeroed-grain GTE, as specified in Virtual Disk
Format 5.0[1].
Recent VMware hosted platform products support a new “zeroed‐grain”
grain table entry (GTE). The zeroed‐grain GTE returns all zeros on
read. In other words, the zeroed‐grain GTE indicates that a grain
in the child disk is zero‐filled but does not actually occupy space
in storage. A sparse extent with zeroed‐grain GTE has the following
in its header:
* SparseExtentHeader.version = 2
* SparseExtentHeader.flags has bit 2 set
Other than the new flag and the possibly zeroed‐grain GTE, version 2
sparse extents are identical to version 1. Also, a zeroed‐grain GTE
has value 0x1 in the GT table.
[1] Virtual Disk Format 5.0, http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vddk/vmdk_50_technote.pdf?src=vmdk
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>