Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V18 0/6] add-cow file format

2013-04-18 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 04:11:47PM +0800, Dong Xu Wang wrote: > It will introduce a new file format: add-cow. > > The add-cow file format makes it possible to perform copy-on-write on top of > a raw disk image. When we know that no backing file clusters remain visible > (e.g. we have streamed the

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH V18 0/6] add-cow file format

2013-04-10 Thread Dong Xu Wang
It will introduce a new file format: add-cow. The add-cow file format makes it possible to perform copy-on-write on top of a raw disk image. When we know that no backing file clusters remain visible (e.g. we have streamed the entire image and copied all data from the backing file), then it is pos