From d57bff8cf3457c2e855eeca4b18266bf5956270d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 Message-Id: From: Max Reitz Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:52:02 -0500 Subject: [CHANGE 01/10] Revert "Documentation: Mention qcow2 full preallocation" To: rhvirt-patches@redhat.com, jen@redhat.com RH-Author: Max Reitz Message-id: <1421679130-22714-2-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com> Patchwork-id: 63361 O-Subject: [RHEL-6.7 qemu-kvm PATCH 1/9] Revert "Documentation: Mention qcow2 full preallocation" Bugzilla: 1040220 RH-Acked-by: Fam Zheng RH-Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek RH-Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi BZ: 1040220 Upstream: N/A (below commit was downstream-only) This reverts commit 42265c953db3c785383f1f0191ef5cd4a58d67d5. Signed-off-by: Max Reitz --- qemu-img.texi | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Jeff E. Nelson --- qemu-img.texi | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi index c7042ed..cc50e13 100644 --- a/qemu-img.texi +++ b/qemu-img.texi @@ -356,12 +356,9 @@ sizes can improve the image file size whereas larger cluster sizes generally provide better performance. @item preallocation -Preallocation mode (allowed values: off, metadata, full). An image with -preallocated metadata is initially larger but can improve performance when the -image needs to grow. Full preallocation additionally writes zeros to the whole -image in order to preallocate lower layers (e.g. the file system containing the -image file) as well. Note that full preallocation writes to every byte of the -virtual disk, so it can take a long time for large images. +Preallocation mode (allowed values: off, metadata). An image with preallocated +metadata is initially larger but can improve performance when the image needs +to grow. @end table -- 2.1.0