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From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] compressed block-stream
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To: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org, kwolf@redhat.com, mreitz@redhat.com, eblake@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com, den@virtuozzo.com

On Tue, 11/14 13:16, Anton Nefedov wrote:
> It might be useful to compress images during block-stream;
> this way the user can merge compressed images of a backing chain and
> the result will remain compressed.

I haven't looked at the patches yet so maybe the answer is obvious, but still:
would the "compress" option be still necessary if what we have is
blockdev-stream instead?

Fam