Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img create: add -o nocow option

2013-12-04 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Chunyan Liu wrote: > 2013/11/25 Kevin Wolf >> >> Am 21.11.2013 um 09:51 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben: >> > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:33:56AM +0800, Chunyan Liu wrote: >> > > 2013/11/20 Stefan Hajnoczi >> > > >> > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:50:29PM +0800, C

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img create: add -o nocow option

2013-12-01 Thread Chunyan Liu
2013/11/25 Kevin Wolf > Am 21.11.2013 um 09:51 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben: > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:33:56AM +0800, Chunyan Liu wrote: > > > 2013/11/20 Stefan Hajnoczi > > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:50:29PM +0800, Chunyan Liu wrote: > > > > > block/cow.c | 22

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img create: add -o nocow option

2013-11-25 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 21.11.2013 um 09:51 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:33:56AM +0800, Chunyan Liu wrote: > > 2013/11/20 Stefan Hajnoczi > > > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:50:29PM +0800, Chunyan Liu wrote: > > > > block/cow.c | 22 ++ > > > > bl

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img create: add -o nocow option

2013-11-25 Thread Chunyan Liu
ping 2013/11/21 Stefan Hajnoczi > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:33:56AM +0800, Chunyan Liu wrote: > > 2013/11/20 Stefan Hajnoczi > > > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:50:29PM +0800, Chunyan Liu wrote: > > > > block/cow.c | 22 ++ > > > > block/qcow.c

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img create: add -o nocow option

2013-11-21 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:33:56AM +0800, Chunyan Liu wrote: > 2013/11/20 Stefan Hajnoczi > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:50:29PM +0800, Chunyan Liu wrote: > > > block/cow.c | 22 ++ > > > block/qcow.c | 22 ++ > > > block/q

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img create: add -o nocow option

2013-11-20 Thread Chunyan Liu
2013/11/20 Stefan Hajnoczi > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:50:29PM +0800, Chunyan Liu wrote: > > block/cow.c | 22 ++ > > block/qcow.c | 22 ++ > > block/qcow2.c | 22 ++ > > I think you can avoi

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img create: add -o nocow option

2013-11-20 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:50:29PM +0800, Chunyan Liu wrote: > block/cow.c | 22 ++ > block/qcow.c | 22 ++ > block/qcow2.c | 22 ++ I think you can avoid modifying all the image formats: .bdr

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img create: add -o nocow option

2013-11-20 Thread Chunyan Liu
Add 'nocow' create option so that users could set nocow flag to newly created images, which could solve performance issues on btrfs. Btrfs has terrible performance when hosting VM images, even more when the guest in those VM are also using btrfs as file system. One way to mitigate this bad perform