Hi, > our actual qcow2v3 improvements, so no one ended up switching to that. So, > to some extent, various high-level consumers still have the notion that > 'raw' files are better/safer/faster than 'qcow2' files because of an > anecdote from years ago, even if we have since fixed the speed parity and > added locking to eliminate careless data loss.
When I use raw images the reasons are different ones. Most of the time it is that I want use the image with something which isn't qemu and thus doesn't understand qcow2. Booting a image as container for example (systemd-nspawn -i $image.raw). cheers, Gerd
