Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 5/7] qcow2: implement lazy refcounts

2012-06-25 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 22.06.2012 17:08, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi: > Lazy refcounts is a performance optimization for qcow2 that postpones > refcount metadata updates and instead marks the image dirty. In the > case of crash or power failure the image will be left in a dirty state > and repaired next time it is opened

[Qemu-devel] [RFC 5/7] qcow2: implement lazy refcounts

2012-06-22 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
Lazy refcounts is a performance optimization for qcow2 that postpones refcount metadata updates and instead marks the image dirty. In the case of crash or power failure the image will be left in a dirty state and repaired next time it is opened. Reducing metadata I/O is important for cache=writet