Hi Nir, I had qcow2 on FC, but qemu-img still showed size is 0.
# qemu-img info /rhev/data-center/mnt/blockSD/eaa6f641-6b36-4c1d-bf99-6ba77df3156f/images/38cdceea-45d9-4616-8eef-966acff2f7be/8a32c5af-f01f-48f4-9329-e173ad3483b1 image: /rhev/data-center/mnt/blockSD/eaa6f641-6b36-4c1d-bf99-6ba77df3156f/images/38cdceea-45d9-4616-8eef-966acff2f7be/8a32c5af-f01f-48f4-9329-e173ad3483b1
file format: qcow2 virtual size: 20G (21474836480 bytes) *disk size: 0* cluster_size: 65536 Format specific information: compat: 1.1 lazy refcounts: false refcount bits: 16 corrupt: false Is the behavior expected? Thanks, Jingjie On 2/22/19 1:53 PM, Nir Soffer wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 7:14 PM Nir Soffer <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 5:00 PM Jingjie Jiang <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: What about qcow2 format?qcow2 reports the real size regardless of the underlying storage, since qcow2 manages the allocations. However the size is reported in qemu-img check in the image-end-offset.$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=10 | tr "\0" "\1" > test.raw $ truncate -s 200m test.raw $ truncate -s 1g backing $ sudo losetup -f backing --show /dev/loop2 $ sudo qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 test.raw /dev/loop2 $ sudo qemu-img info --output json /dev/loop2 { "virtual-size": 209715200, "filename": "/dev/loop2", "cluster-size": 65536, "format": "qcow2", "actual-size": 0, "format-specific": { "type": "qcow2", "data": { "compat": "1.1", "lazy-refcounts": false, "refcount-bits": 16, "corrupt": false } }, "dirty-flag": false } $ sudo qemu-img check --output json /dev/loop2 { "image-end-offset": 10813440, "total-clusters": 3200, "check-errors": 0, "allocated-clusters": 160, "filename": "/dev/loop2", "format": "qcow2" }We use this for reducing volumes to optimal size after merging snapshots, butwe don't report this value to engine. Is there a choice to create vm disk with format qcow2 instead of raw? Not for LUNs, only for images. The available formats in 4.3 are documented here: https://ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/incremental-backup.html#disk-format incremental means you checked the checkbox "Enable incremental backup" when creating a disk. But note that the fact that we will create qcow2 image is implementation detail and the behavior may change in the future. For example, qemu is expected to provide a way to do incremental backup with raw volumes, and in this case we may create a raw volume instead of qcow2 volume. (actually raw data volume and qcow2 metadata volume). If you want to control the disk format, the only way is via the REST API or SDK, where you can specify the format instead of allocation policy. However even if you specify the format in the SDK the system may chose to change the format when copying the disk to another storage type. For example if you copy qcow2/sparse image from block storage to file storage the system will create a raw/sparse image. If you desire to control the format both from the UI and REST API/SDK and ensure that the system will never change the selected format please file a bug explaining the use case. On 2/21/19 5:46 PM, Nir Soffer wrote:On Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 21:48 <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Based on oVirt 4.3.0, I have data domain from FC lun, then I create new vm on the disk from FC data domain. After VM was created. According to qemu-img info, the disk size is 0. # qemu-img info /rhev/data-center/mnt/blockSD/eaa6f641-6b36-4c1d-bf99-6ba77df3156f/images/8d3b455b-1da4-49f3-ba57-8cda64aa9dc9/949fa315-3934-4038-85f2-08aec52c1e2b image: /rhev/data-center/mnt/blockSD/eaa6f641-6b36-4c1d-bf99-6ba77df3156f/images/8d3b455b-1da4-49f3-ba57-8cda64aa9dc9/949fa315-3934-4038-85f2-08aec52c1e2b file format: raw virtual size: 10G (10737418240 bytes) disk size: 0 I tried on iscsi and same result. Is the behaviour expected? It is expected in a way. Disk size is the amount of storage actually used, and block devices has no way to tell that. oVirt report the size of the block device in this case, which is more accurate than zero. However the real size allocated on the undrelying storage is somewhere between zero an device size, and depends on the imlementation of the storage. Nither qemu-img nor oVirt can tell the real size. Nir Thanks, Jingjie _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TSXP7RENWIFMHIJWIAF6AGQPI3NOVNIZ/
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