Am 16.10.2017 um 15:38 hat Daniel P. Berrange geschrieben: > > Another thing that made me a bit sad is that they mention qed as a > > better performing alternative for qcow2. Even in 2017, people keep > > spreading this nonsense. :-( > > Probably because when you google for QED you inevitably hit this article > near the top: > > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTY0MQ > > And there's little clear information on QEMU website to show that QED > is essentially an obsolete experiment. > > Perhaps some clear update to this page would help, and also in the > qemu docs > > https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QED
I updated the wiki page, maybe this will help a bit. We could also consider printing a warning when you create a new image in an obsolete native qemu format (i.e. qcow1 and qed). Kevin