Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL for-2.1 13/24] qemu-img create: add 'nocow' option

2014-07-01 Thread Chun Yan Liu
>>> On 7/2/2014 at 11:10 AM, in message <53b37840.1020...@redhat.com>, Eric >>> Blake wrote: > On 07/01/2014 02:48 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > From: Chunyan Liu > > > > Add 'nocow' option so that users could have a chance to set NOCOW flag to > > newly created files. It's useful on bt

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL for-2.1 13/24] qemu-img create: add 'nocow' option

2014-07-01 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/01/2014 02:48 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > From: Chunyan Liu > > Add 'nocow' option so that users could have a chance to set NOCOW flag to > newly created files. It's useful on btrfs file system to enhance performance. > > Btrfs has low performance when hosting VM images, even more when th

[Qemu-devel] [PULL for-2.1 13/24] qemu-img create: add 'nocow' option

2014-07-01 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
From: Chunyan Liu Add 'nocow' option so that users could have a chance to set NOCOW flag to newly created files. It's useful on btrfs file system to enhance performance. Btrfs has low performance when hosting VM images, even more when the guest in those VM are also using btrfs as file system. On