This patch add shrinking of the image file for qcow2. As a result, this allows
us to reduce the virtual image size and free up space on the disk without
copying the image. Image can be fragmented and shrink is done by punching holes
in the image file.
# ./qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o size=4G image.qcow2
Formatting 'image.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 size=4294967296 encryption=off
cluster_size=65536 lazy_refcounts=off refcount_bits=16
# ./qemu-io -c "write -P 0x22 0 1G" image.qcow2
wrote 1073741824/1073741824 bytes at offset 0
1 GiB, 1 ops; 0:00:02.59 (395.180 MiB/sec and 0.3859 ops/sec)
# ./qemu-img resize image.qcow2 512M
Warning: shrinking of the image can lead to data loss. Before performing shrink
operation you must make sure that the shrink part of image doesn't contain
important data.
If you don't want to see this message use --shrink option.
Image resized.
# ./qemu-img resize --shrink image.qcow2 128M
Image resized.
# ./qemu-img info image.qcow2
image: image.qcow2
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 128M (134217728 bytes)
disk size: 128M
cluster_size: 65536
Format specific information:
compat: 1.1
lazy refcounts: false
refcount bits: 16
corrupt: false
# du -h ./image.qcow2
129M ./image.qcow2
Changes from v1:
- add --shrink flag for qemu-img resize
- add qcow2_cache_discard
- simplify qcow2_shrink_l1_table() to reduce the likelihood of image corruption
- add new qemu-iotests for shrinking images
Pavel Butsykin (4):
qemu-img: add --shrink flag for resize
qcow2: add qcow2_cache_discard
qcow2: add shrink image support
qemu-iotests: add shrinking image test
block/qcow2-cache.c | 21 +++++++++
block/qcow2-cluster.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++
block/qcow2-refcount.c | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
block/qcow2.c | 40 ++++++++++++----
block/qcow2.h | 3 ++
qapi/block-core.json | 3 +-
qemu-img-cmds.hx | 4 +-
qemu-img.c | 15 ++++++
qemu-img.texi | 5 +-
tests/qemu-iotests/102 | 4 +-
tests/qemu-iotests/163 | 113 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tests/qemu-iotests/163.out | 5 ++
tests/qemu-iotests/group | 1 +
13 files changed, 310 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tests/qemu-iotests/163
create mode 100644 tests/qemu-iotests/163.out
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2.13.0
