Offhand, sounds both useful and easy to do. I marked the BZ with 3.6.0, and we'll revisit when we plan the 3.6.0 version.
Of course, if someone wants to contribute patches *wink wink, hint hint*. ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel Helgenberger" <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected] List" <[email protected]> > 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 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. > > Thanks! > > On 01.09.2014 12:01, plysan wrote: > > 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 it. I want to know if there is any problem with > > my > > theory, I'm not so experienced in storage. And I created a more detailed > > expanation to address this problem: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1117219 > > > > thanks. > > -- > Daniel Helgenberger > m box bewegtbild GmbH > > P: +49/30/2408781-22 > F: +49/30/2408781-10 > > ACKERSTR. 19 > D-10115 BERLIN > > > www.m-box.de www.monkeymen.tv > > Geschäftsführer: Martin Retschitzegger / Michaela Göllner > Handeslregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg / HRB 112767 > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

