On 29/09/2016 14:48, Kevin Wolf wrote: > 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.
Duh, of course it is. Paolo