From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FxjJS-0005ck-UQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:43:30 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FxjJS-0005cD-Bl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:43:30 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxjJS-0005cA-7f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:43:30 -0400 Received: from [84.96.92.55] (helo=smtP.neuf.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FxjX7-0004hO-E3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:57:37 -0400 Received: from [84.102.211.189] by sp604004mt.gpm.neuf.ld (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-5.05 (built Feb 16 2006)) with ESMTP id <0J1V00B3LMFYWY40@sp604004mt.gpm.neuf.ld> for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:26:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:26:15 +0200 From: Fabrice Bellard Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QCow v2 In-reply-to: <46d6db660607040414m561b7af7h45d50f7a1d6296da@mail.gmail.com> Message-id: <44AA5057.4090306@bellard.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <1151981142.5476.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44AA33AD.3030300@bellard.org> <46d6db660607040344i7bc7e4cbx83fc424a6ebefa8a@mail.gmail.com> <46d6db660607040414m561b7af7h45d50f7a1d6296da@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Christian MICHON wrote: > 1) size... win30.qcow is 7.5Mb (no compress) 3.5Mb (with zlib) > it should go down between 2.2Mb and 2.5Mb with lzma Did you compare with 4 KB clusters ? If you compress the whole file it says nothing about the compression gain you will have with 4 KB blocks. Fabrice.