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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm tool: add QCOW verions 1 read/write support
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:11:54 +0200
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* Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> wrote:

> Hi Christoph,
>=20
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 08:01:58PM +0100, Prasad Joshi wrote:
> >> The patch only implements the basic read write support for QCOW ve=
rsion 1
> >> images. Many of the QCOW features are not implmented, for example
>=20
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org=
> wrote:
> > What's the point? =A0Qcow1 has been deprecated for a long time.
>=20
> We're going to add QCOW2 too. Do you think there's no value in
> supporting QCOW1 and we should drop it completely? I have no
> objections in being QCOW2-only.

I'm curious about that too. Christoph?

Thanks,

	Ingo