On 28.06.20 13:02, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> Traditional qcow2 images don't allow preallocation if a backing file
> is set. This is because once a cluster is allocated there is no way to
> tell that its data should be read from the backing file.
>
> Extended L2 entries have individual allocation
Traditional qcow2 images don't allow preallocation if a backing file
is set. This is because once a cluster is allocated there is no way to
tell that its data should be read from the backing file.
Extended L2 entries have individual allocation bits for each
subcluster, and therefore it is
