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Re: qcow2 preallocation and backing files
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Alberto Garcia |
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Re: qcow2 preallocation and backing files |
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Wed, 20 Nov 2019 17:35:49 +0100 |
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On Wed 20 Nov 2019 04:58:38 PM CET, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
>> But then PREALLOC_MODE_OFF implies that the L2 metadata should be
>> preallocated (all clusters should be QCOW2_CLUSTER_ZERO_PLAIN), at
>> least when there is a backing file.
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> Kevin proposed a fix that alters PREALLOC_MODE_OFF behavior if there
> is a backing file, to allocate L2 metadata with ZERO clusters..
Right, I just saw :)
Berto