On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Fam Zheng <famc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Stream optimized VMDK image allocates minimized space for a compressed > cluster, which means if there is high compress ratio, a cluster > possibly only takes one physical sector in the file. It makes > overwriting hard, especially when new data needs more sectors than > previously allocated. > > Attach the image to VMware and boot the VM to test this format, it > seems that VMware wouldn’t do write to allocated clusters, but can > allocate new cluster to save data.
What happens when the VM writes to allocated clusters? EIO? Stefan
