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[Qemu-devel] [Bug 660366] [NEW] "qemu-img convert -O qcow2 -o backing_fi


From: Ildar
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 660366] [NEW] "qemu-img convert -O qcow2 -o backing_file" makes huge images
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:28:07 -0000

Public bug reported:

$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M of=1.img count=4
4+0 records in
4+0 records out
4194304 bytes (4,2 MB) copied, 1,0413 s, 4,0 MB/s
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b 1.img 2.img
Formatting '2.img', fmt=qcow2 size=4194304 backing_file='1.img' encryption=off 
cluster_size=0 
$ qemu-img convert -O qcow2 -o backing_file=1.img 2.img 3.img
$ du -h ?.img
4,1M    1.img
144K    2.img
4,3M    3.img

The conversion result is bigger then the source!

It appears that "-o backing_file" is not applied to data (as expected).
I.e. all data is put into the resulting image: both from source image
and "backing" image.

Expected behavior is to put only data that is not present in
backing_file.

** Affects: qemu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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"qemu-img convert -O qcow2 -o backing_file" makes huge images
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Status in QEMU: New

Bug description:
$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M of=1.img count=4
4+0 records in
4+0 records out
4194304 bytes (4,2 MB) copied, 1,0413 s, 4,0 MB/s
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b 1.img 2.img
Formatting '2.img', fmt=qcow2 size=4194304 backing_file='1.img' encryption=off 
cluster_size=0 
$ qemu-img convert -O qcow2 -o backing_file=1.img 2.img 3.img
$ du -h ?.img
4,1M    1.img
144K    2.img
4,3M    3.img

The conversion result is bigger then the source!

It appears that "-o backing_file" is not applied to data (as expected). I.e. 
all data is put into the resulting image: both from source image and "backing" 
image.

Expected behavior is to put only data that is not present in backing_file.





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