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From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QCow v2
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If it does not compress significantly better I see no need for that 
(remember that qemu uses 4 KB clusters).

Fabrice.

Christian MICHON wrote:
> how about also adding lzma compression for qcow ?
> I know how to do this inside linux kernel, but lzma'ed qcow images
> for windows guests could be a very nice addition too.
> 
> Thank Mark for the notes. I'll look at it to see how to start a
> lzma patch for qcow...
> 
> On 7/4/06, Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org> wrote:
> 
>> Regarding my current plans, the next qcow evolution will be the support
>> for multiple snapshots. Each snapshot will be tagged by a label.
>>
>> Fabrice.
>>
>