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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/4] qemu-img: add preallocation=full
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/4] qemu-img: add preallocation=full |
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Tue, 4 Mar 2014 09:19:51 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 03:31:31PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 04:00:37PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:29:29AM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
> > > This series implements full image preallocation to create a non-sparse
> > > image
> > > file at creation time, both for raw and qcow2 format. The purpose is to
> > > avoid
> > > performance deterioration of the guest cause by sparse image.
> > >
> > > v6:
> > > - add `Since 2.0' to PreallocMode
> > > - apply total_size change to raw-win32.c as well
> > >
> > > Hu Tao (4):
> > > qapi: introduce PreallocMode and a new PreallocMode full.
> > > raw, qcow2: don't convert file size to sector size
> > > raw-posix: Add full image preallocation option
> > > qcow2: Add full image preallocation option
> > >
> > > block/qcow2.c | 91
> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> > > block/raw-posix.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++------
> > > block/raw-win32.c | 4 +--
> > > qapi-schema.json | 14 +++++++++
> > > 4 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> >
> > Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
>
> Stefan, Kevin,
>
> Is this series in time for 2.0?
Yes, it was on the mailing list before soft freeze so it is a candidate
for 2.0. In some cases maintainers may decide to hold back if they feel
a patch series imposes a high risk of breaking things - but I think this
series should be okay.
Stefan