KVM - Qcow2 image size behavior

[Julianno Nogueira]

Hello everyone! I would like to thank you all for the project and the tool developed across these years. I am a fan of yours! This is very important to make the new technology era a better and open place to work and live with!

I´m facing a weird listing image file behaviour (or at least I think It is), that have a 500GB Qcow2 image:

[root@server /]# qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/netvoltcloudserv.img

image: /var/lib/libvirt/images/netvoltcloudserv.img

file format: qcow2

virtual size: 500G (536870912000 bytes)

disk size: 489G

cluster_size: 65536

Format specific information:

    compat: 1.1

    lazy refcounts: true

- The Image size is 500GB, and that´s correct and exacly what I have set up.

Now the problem is when I ls this image:

[root@server /]# ls -la /var/lib/libvirt/images/

total 512593892

drwx--x--x.  4 root root            75 Set 16 22:46 .

drwxr-xr-x. 10 root root           117 Jun 20 12:04 ..

drwx--x--x.  2 root root            29 Jul  5  2018 discos_virtuais

-rwx--x--x.  1 qemu qemu 1010408555008 Set 25 11:51 netvoltcloudserv.img

drwx--x--x.  2 root root             6 Set 16 22:46 nsf-pool-1

 

- The size of this image is 1TB! 

So my question based on this, is: 

- Is this a "bug" or "expected" behavior?
- Who to "fix the size" or make SISOP see it correctly (with 500GB)?

Thank you in advance!

Regards

Julianno Nogueira