Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> our actual qcow2v3 improvements, so no one ended up switching to that. So,
> to some extent, various high-level consumers still have the notion that
> 'raw' files are better/safer/faster than 'qcow2' files because of an
> anecdote from years ago, even if we have since fixed the speed parity and
> added locking to eliminate careless data loss.

When I use raw images the reasons are different ones.  Most of the time
it is that I want use the image with something which isn't qemu and thus
doesn't understand qcow2.  Booting a image as container for example
(systemd-nspawn -i $image.raw).

cheers,
  Gerd