Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 01/13] qcow2: Unallocate unmapped zero clusters if no backing file

[Eric Blake]

On 05/11/2017 09:56 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> 
> On IRC, John, Kevin, and I were discussing the current situation with
> libvirt NBD storage migration.  When libvirt creates a file on the
> destination (rather than the user pre-creating it), it currently
> defaults to 0.10 [v2] images, even if the source was a 1.1 image [v3]
> (arguably something that could be improved in libvirt, but
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1371749 was closed as not a
> bug).
> 
> Therefore, the use case of doing a mirror job to a v2 image, and having
> that image become thick even though the source was thin, is happening
> more than we'd like
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1371749).  While Kevin had

Bah, pasted the wrong link.  Correct one is:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219541

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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