Re: [ovirt-users] Should we add 'cow' format disk in file domains in frontend UI ?

@ovirt.org List users@ovirt.org Sent: Monday, September 1, 2014 6:11:00 PM Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Should we add 'cow' format disk in file domains in frontend UI ? IMHO definitely! I use qcow2 since years and consider it the superior format for most use cases; esp. when I run in export

[ovirt-users] Should we add 'cow' format disk in file domains in frontend UI ?

Hello, We had experience that if we clone vm from snapshot with sprase raw disk in file domains, the process would get very slow if the disk defined virtual size is big but actual size is small, so i popose the frontend UI to be able to add caw disk in file domains. And I'm happy to implement

Re: [ovirt-users] Should we add 'cow' format disk in file domains in frontend UI ?

IMHO definitely! I use qcow2 since years and consider it the superior format for most use cases; esp. when I run in export times for disk images of about 4h/TB of raw disk space with less then 5GB consumed actually. I would consder this as a big step forward for a ovit production installation.