diff --git a/block/quorum.c b/block/quorum.c
index e846a7e892..29cee42705 100644
--- a/block/quorum.c
+++ b/block/quorum.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include "qemu/module.h"
 #include "qemu/option.h"
 #include "block/block_int.h"
+#include "block/coroutines.h"
 #include "block/qdict.h"
 #include "qapi/error.h"
 #include "qapi/qapi-events-block.h"
@@ -1174,6 +1175,53 @@ static void quorum_child_perm(BlockDriverState *bs, BdrvChild *c,
              | DEFAULT_PERM_UNCHANGED;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Each one of the children can report different status flags even
+ * when they contain the same data, so what this function does is
+ * return BDRV_BLOCK_ZERO if *all* children agree that a certain
+ * region contains zeroes, and BDRV_BLOCK_DATA otherwise.
+ */
+static int coroutine_fn quorum_co_block_status(BlockDriverState *bs,
+                                               bool want_zero,
+                                               int64_t offset, int64_t count,
+                                               int64_t *pnum, int64_t *map,
+                                               BlockDriverState **file)
+{
+    BDRVQuorumState *s = bs->opaque;
+    int i, ret;
+    int64_t pnum_zero = count;
+    int64_t pnum_data = 0;
+
+    for (i = 0; i < s->num_children; i++) {
+        int64_t bytes;
+        ret = bdrv_co_common_block_status_above(s->children[i]->bs, NULL, false,
+                                                want_zero, offset, count,
+                                                &bytes, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+        if (ret < 0) {
+            return ret;
+        }
+        /*
+         * Even if all children agree about whether there are zeroes
+         * or not at @offset they might disagree on the size, so use
+         * the smallest when reporting BDRV_BLOCK_ZERO and the largest
+         * when reporting BDRV_BLOCK_DATA.
+         */
+        if (ret & BDRV_BLOCK_ZERO) {
+            pnum_zero = MIN(pnum_zero, bytes);
+        } else {
+            pnum_data = MAX(pnum_data, bytes);
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (pnum_data) {
+        *pnum = pnum_data;
+        return BDRV_BLOCK_DATA;
+    } else {
+        *pnum = pnum_zero;
+        return BDRV_BLOCK_ZERO;
+    }
+}
+
 static const char *const quorum_strong_runtime_opts[] = {
     QUORUM_OPT_VOTE_THRESHOLD,
     QUORUM_OPT_BLKVERIFY,
@@ -1192,6 +1240,7 @@ static BlockDriver bdrv_quorum = {
     .bdrv_close                         = quorum_close,
     .bdrv_gather_child_options          = quorum_gather_child_options,
     .bdrv_dirname                       = quorum_dirname,
+    .bdrv_co_block_status               = quorum_co_block_status,
 
     .bdrv_co_flush_to_disk              = quorum_co_flush,
 
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/312 b/tests/qemu-iotests/312
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..1b08f1552f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/312
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Test drive-mirror with quorum
+#
+# The goal of this test is to check how the quorum driver reports
+# regions that are known to read as zeroes (BDRV_BLOCK_ZERO). The idea
+# is that drive-mirror will try the efficient representation of zeroes
+# in the destination image instead of writing actual zeroes.
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2020 Igalia, S.L.
+# Author: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+
+# creator
+owner=berto@igalia.com
+
+seq=`basename $0`
+echo "QA output created by $seq"
+
+status=1	# failure is the default!
+
+_cleanup()
+{
+    _rm_test_img "$TEST_IMG.0"
+    _rm_test_img "$TEST_IMG.1"
+    _rm_test_img "$TEST_IMG.2"
+    _rm_test_img "$TEST_IMG.3"
+    _cleanup_qemu
+}
+trap "_cleanup; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3 15
+
+# get standard environment, filters and checks
+. ./common.rc
+. ./common.filter
+. ./common.qemu
+
+_supported_fmt qcow2
+_supported_proto file
+_supported_os Linux
+_unsupported_imgopts cluster_size data_file
+
+echo
+echo '### Create all images' # three source (quorum), one destination
+echo
+TEST_IMG="$TEST_IMG.0" _make_test_img -o cluster_size=64k 10M
+TEST_IMG="$TEST_IMG.1" _make_test_img -o cluster_size=64k 10M
+TEST_IMG="$TEST_IMG.2" _make_test_img -o cluster_size=64k 10M
+TEST_IMG="$TEST_IMG.3" _make_test_img -o cluster_size=64k 10M
+
+quorum="driver=raw,file.driver=quorum,file.vote-threshold=2"
+quorum="$quorum,file.children.0.file.filename=$TEST_IMG.0"
+quorum="$quorum,file.children.1.file.filename=$TEST_IMG.1"
+quorum="$quorum,file.children.2.file.filename=$TEST_IMG.2"
+quorum="$quorum,file.children.0.driver=$IMGFMT"
+quorum="$quorum,file.children.1.driver=$IMGFMT"
+quorum="$quorum,file.children.2.driver=$IMGFMT"
+
+echo
+echo '### Output of qemu-img map (empty quorum)'
+echo
+$QEMU_IMG map --image-opts $quorum | _filter_qemu_img_map
+
+# Now we write data to the quorum. All three images will read as
+# zeroes in all cases, but with different ways to represent them
+# (unallocated clusters, zero clusters, data clusters with zeroes)
+# that will have an effect on how the data will be mirrored and the
+# output of qemu-img map on the resulting image.
+echo
+echo '### Write data to the quorum'
+echo
+# Test 1: data regions surrounded by unallocated clusters.
+# Three data regions, the largest one (0x30000) will be picked, end result:
+# offset 0x10000, length 0x30000 -> data
+$QEMU_IO -c "write -P 0 $((0x10000)) $((0x10000))" "$TEST_IMG.0" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "write -P 0 $((0x10000)) $((0x30000))" "$TEST_IMG.1" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "write -P 0 $((0x10000)) $((0x20000))" "$TEST_IMG.2" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+# Test 2: zero regions surrounded by data clusters.
+# First we allocate the data clusters.
+$QEMU_IO -c "open -o $quorum" -c "write -P 0 $((0x100000)) $((0x40000))" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+# Three zero regions, the smallest one (0x10000) will be picked, end result:
+# offset 0x100000, length 0x10000 -> data
+# offset 0x110000, length 0x10000 -> zeroes
+# offset 0x120000, length 0x20000 -> data
+$QEMU_IO -c "write -z $((0x110000)) $((0x10000))" "$TEST_IMG.0" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "write -z $((0x110000)) $((0x30000))" "$TEST_IMG.1" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "write -z $((0x110000)) $((0x20000))" "$TEST_IMG.2" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+# Test 3: zero clusters surrounded by unallocated clusters.
+# Everything reads as zeroes, no effect on the end result.
+$QEMU_IO -c "write -z $((0x150000)) $((0x10000))" "$TEST_IMG.0" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "write -z $((0x150000)) $((0x30000))" "$TEST_IMG.1" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "write -z $((0x150000)) $((0x20000))" "$TEST_IMG.2" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+# Test 4: mix of data and zero clusters.
+# The zero region will be ignored in favor of the largest data region
+# (0x20000), end result:
+# offset 0x200000, length 0x20000 -> data
+$QEMU_IO -c "write -P 0 $((0x200000)) $((0x10000))" "$TEST_IMG.0" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "write -z   $((0x200000)) $((0x30000))" "$TEST_IMG.1" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "write -P 0 $((0x200000)) $((0x20000))" "$TEST_IMG.2" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo
+echo '### Launch the drive-mirror job'
+echo
+qemu_comm_method="qmp" _launch_qemu -drive if=virtio,"$quorum"
+h=$QEMU_HANDLE
+_send_qemu_cmd $h "{ 'execute': 'qmp_capabilities' }" 'return'
+
+_send_qemu_cmd $h \
+    "{'execute': 'drive-mirror',
+                 'arguments': {'device': 'virtio0',
+                               'format': '$IMGFMT',
+                               'target': '$TEST_IMG.3',
+                               'sync':   'full',
+                               'mode':   'existing' }}"    \
+     "BLOCK_JOB_READY.*virtio0"
+
+_send_qemu_cmd $h \
+    "{ 'execute': 'block-job-complete',
+       'arguments': { 'device': 'virtio0' } }" \
+    'BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED'
+
+_send_qemu_cmd $h "{ 'execute': 'quit' }" ''
+
+echo
+echo '### Output of qemu-img map (destination image)'
+echo
+$QEMU_IMG map "$TEST_IMG.3" | _filter_qemu_img_map
+
+# success, all done
+echo "*** done"
+rm -f $seq.full
+status=0
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/312.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/312.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4ae749175b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/312.out
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+QA output created by 312
+
+### Create all images
+
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.0', fmt=IMGFMT size=10485760
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.1', fmt=IMGFMT size=10485760
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.2', fmt=IMGFMT size=10485760
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.3', fmt=IMGFMT size=10485760
+
+### Output of qemu-img map (empty quorum)
+
+Offset          Length          File
+
+### Write data to the quorum
+
+wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset 65536
+64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+wrote 196608/196608 bytes at offset 65536
+192 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+wrote 131072/131072 bytes at offset 65536
+128 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+wrote 262144/262144 bytes at offset 1048576
+256 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset 1114112
+64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+wrote 196608/196608 bytes at offset 1114112
+192 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+wrote 131072/131072 bytes at offset 1114112
+128 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset 1376256
+64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+wrote 196608/196608 bytes at offset 1376256
+192 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+wrote 131072/131072 bytes at offset 1376256
+128 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset 2097152
+64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+wrote 196608/196608 bytes at offset 2097152
+192 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+wrote 131072/131072 bytes at offset 2097152
+128 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+### Launch the drive-mirror job
+
+{ 'execute': 'qmp_capabilities' }
+{"return": {}}
+{'execute': 'drive-mirror', 'arguments': {'device': 'virtio0', 'format': 'IMGFMT', 'target': 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.3', 'sync': 'full', 'mode': 'existing' }}
+{"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP}, "event": "JOB_STATUS_CHANGE", "data": {"status": "created", "id": "virtio0"}}
+{"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP}, "event": "JOB_STATUS_CHANGE", "data": {"status": "running", "id": "virtio0"}}
+{"return": {}}
+{"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP}, "event": "JOB_STATUS_CHANGE", "data": {"status": "ready", "id": "virtio0"}}
+{"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP}, "event": "BLOCK_JOB_READY", "data": {"device": "virtio0", "len": 10485760, "offset": 10485760, "speed": 0, "type": "mirror"}}
+{ 'execute': 'block-job-complete', 'arguments': { 'device': 'virtio0' } }
+{"return": {}}
+{"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP}, "event": "JOB_STATUS_CHANGE", "data": {"status": "waiting", "id": "virtio0"}}
+{"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP}, "event": "JOB_STATUS_CHANGE", "data": {"status": "pending", "id": "virtio0"}}
+{"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP}, "event": "BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED", "data": {"device": "virtio0", "len": 10485760, "offset": 10485760, "speed": 0, "type": "mirror"}}
+{ 'execute': 'quit' }
+
+### Output of qemu-img map (destination image)
+
+Offset          Length          File
+0x10000         0x30000         TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.3
+0x100000        0x10000         TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.3
+0x120000        0x20000         TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.3
+0x200000        0x20000         TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.3
+*** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/group b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
index 2960dff728..2a218c8918 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/group
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
@@ -316,3 +316,4 @@
 305 rw quick
 307 rw quick export
 309 rw auto quick
+312 rw auto quick
