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

[Allon Mureinik]

Offhand, sounds both useful and easy to do.
I marked the BZ with 3.6.0, and we'll revisit when we plan the 3.6.0 version.

Of course, if someone wants to contribute patches *wink wink, hint hint*.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Helgenberger" <daniel.helgenberger at m-box.de>
> To: "Users at ovirt.org List" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 1, 2014 6:11:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Should we add 'cow' format disk in file domains in	frontend UI ?
> 
> 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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