Re: [Qemu-devel] Persistent bitmaps for non-qcow2 formats

[Yaniv Lavi (Dary)]

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On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:25 AM, John Snow <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On 08/30/2017 08:58 AM, Yaniv Lavi (Dary) wrote:
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> > We had no reason to switch to anything else so far and I'm sure this
> > option was not available when we started supporting raw format.
> >
> >
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> Yeah, they don't exist yet...! I've looped you in to see if the proposal
> being discussed would alleviate the need for bitmaps for "other formats"
> if we can offer a "raw mode qcow2."
>

As we our direction is to move a file system/LUN per disk I don't think
adding a new type disk image is the right priority.
The below option of separate file sound like the right direction.


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> At the moment I am going to still try to add bitmaps to other formats
> (through the use of a qcow2 wrapper) but it sounds like a raw-layout
> qcow2 might provide some benefits too.
>
> -js
>