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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] qed: Add QEMU Enhanced Disk format
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:48:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C890FD1.6060105@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C88D7CC.5000806@codemonkey.ws>

On 09/09/2010 02:49 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> We should optimize for the future. That means a btrfs file system and/or
> enterprise storage.

So we should just implement a copy-on-read wrapper that generates a 
sparse raw image and uses FIEMAP (or whatever it is called these days) 
to test for the presence of extents.  Then you let btrfs handle 
everything else...

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-09 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 131+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-06 10:04 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qed: Add QEMU Enhanced Disk format Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-06 10:25 ` Alexander Graf
2010-09-06 10:31   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-06 14:21   ` Luca Tettamanti
2010-09-06 14:24     ` Alexander Graf
2010-09-06 16:27       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-06 10:27 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2010-09-06 12:40   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-06 12:57     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-06 13:02       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-06 14:10       ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-06 16:45         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-06 12:45   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 23:49     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-06 11:18 ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2010-09-06 12:52   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-06 13:35     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-09-06 16:38       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-06 13:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-07 14:51   ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-07 15:40     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-07 16:09       ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-07 16:25         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-07 22:27           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-08  8:23             ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-08  8:41               ` Alexander Graf
2010-09-08  8:53                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-08 11:15                   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-08 15:38                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-08 16:30                       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-08 20:23                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-08 20:28                           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-09  2:35                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-09  6:24                               ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-09 21:01                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-10 11:15                                   ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-09  6:53                     ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 21:22                     ` Jamie Lokier
2010-09-14 10:46                       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-14 11:08                         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-14 12:54                         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-08 12:55                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-09  6:30                     ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-08 12:48               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-08 13:20                 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-08 13:26                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-08 13:46                     ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-09  6:45                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-09  6:48                   ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-09 12:49                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-09 16:48                     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2010-09-09 17:02                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-09-09 20:56                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-10 10:53                         ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 11:14                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 11:25                       ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 11:33                         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-10 11:43                           ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 13:22                             ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 13:48                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-10 15:02                                 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 15:18                                   ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-10 15:53                                     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 16:05                                       ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-10 17:10                                         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 17:44                                           ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-10 17:46                                           ` Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho
2010-09-10 14:02                               ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 13:47                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-10 14:05                             ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 14:12                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-10 14:24                                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 13:16                         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 14:06                           ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 11:43                       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-10 12:06                         ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 13:28                           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 12:12                         ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-10 12:35                           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-10 12:47                             ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 13:10                               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-10 13:19                                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 13:39                               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 13:52                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-10 13:56                                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 13:48                             ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-10 13:14                       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 13:47                         ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 14:56                           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 15:49                             ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 17:07                               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-10 17:42                                 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-10 19:33                                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-13 10:41                                     ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-12 13:24                                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-12 15:13                                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-12 15:56                                     ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-12 17:09                                       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-12 17:51                                         ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-12 20:18                                           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-13  9:24                                             ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-13 11:28                                         ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-13 11:34                                           ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-13 11:48                                             ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-13 13:19                                               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-13 13:12                                           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-13 11:03                                       ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-13 13:07                                         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-13 13:24                                           ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-07 16:12     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-07 21:35       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-07 22:29         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-07 22:40           ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-08 15:07     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-09  6:59       ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-09 17:43         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-09 20:46           ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-10 11:22           ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-10 11:29             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-10 11:37               ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-07 13:58 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-07 19:25 ` Blue Swirl
2010-09-07 20:41   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-08  7:48     ` Kevin Wolf
2010-09-08 15:37   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-08 18:24     ` Blue Swirl
2010-09-08 18:35       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-08 18:56         ` Blue Swirl
2010-09-08 19:19           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-15 21:01 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-15 21:12   ` Anthony Liguori

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