[ovirt-users] Should we add 'cow' format disk in file domains in frontend UI ?

[Daniel Helgenberger]

IMHO definitely!

I use qcow2 since years and consider it the superior format for most use
cases; esp. when I run in export times for disk images of about 4h/TB of
raw disk space with less then 5GB consumed actually.

I would consder this as a big step forward for a ovit production
installation.

Thanks!

On 01.09.2014 12:01, plysan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We had experience that if we clone vm from snapshot with sprase raw disk in file 
> domains, the process would get very slow if the disk defined virtual size is big 
> but actual size is small, so i popose the frontend UI to be able to add caw disk 
> in file domains.
>
> And I'm happy to implement it. I want to know if there is any problem with my 
> theory, I'm not so experienced in storage. And I created a more detailed 
> expanation to address this problem: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1117219
>
> thanks.

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