From: Charles Duffy <charles@dyfis.net>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is this a bug in qemu-img?
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:07:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <492AED7A.8040203@dyfis.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gged4r$9u$1@ger.gmane.org>
walt wrote:
> Any chance that 'commit' could be added to raw as
> well as qcow2?
Raw images by their nature can't contain metadata -- they have only the
exact contents of the virtual drive, which is what makes them "raw" --
so they by definition can't support copy-on-write (and thus commit) or
other functionality requiring metadata.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-24 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-22 18:26 Is this a bug in qemu-img? walt
2008-11-23 8:50 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-23 17:29 ` walt
2008-11-24 14:19 ` walt
2008-11-24 18:07 ` Charles Duffy [this message]
2008-11-30 21:35 ` Aurelien Jarno
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