Am 29.09.2016 um 14:14 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben: > On 29/09/2016 12:39, Kevin Wolf wrote: > >> > Because there is another check of pass-discard-request value in > >> > update_refcount: > >> > > >> > if (refcount == 0 && s->discard_passthrough[type]) { > >> > update_refcount_discard(bs, cluster_offset, s->cluster_size); > >> > } > > What I mean is that in the second case, you're still uselessly > > deallocating the cluster on the qcow2 level while you can't reclaim it > > on the filesystem level. So it would be better to leave it allocated in > > qcow2, too, so that you don't get an expensive reallocation the next > > time you write to it. > > But if you do a qemu-img convert, the deallocated cluster wouldn't be in > the destination.
Right. I still think that there has to be an option to keep the image fully allocated. Perhaps what we really need to check is BDRV_O_UNMAP. Kevin