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Re: [PATCH 0/1] qcow2: Skip copy-on-write when allocating a zero cluster


From: Kevin Wolf
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] qcow2: Skip copy-on-write when allocating a zero cluster
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 10:18:25 +0200

Am 17.08.2020 um 20:18 hat Alberto Garcia geschrieben:
> On Mon 17 Aug 2020 05:53:07 PM CEST, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > Maybe the difference is in allocating 64k at once instead of doing a
> > separate allocation for every 4k block? But with the extent size hint
> > patches to file-posix, we should allocate 1 MB at once by default now
> > (if your test image was newly created). Can you check whether this is
> > in effect for your image file?
> 
> Ehmm... is that hint supported in ext4 or only in xfs?

Hm, I had understood that ext4 supports this, but looking at the kernel
code, it doesn't look like it. :-(

Kevin




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