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3b88e52b 06/29/2009 10:18 pm Kevin Wolf

qcow2: Cache refcount blocks during snapshot creation

The really time consuming part of snapshotting is to adjust the reference count
of all clusters. Currently after each adjusted cluster the refcount block is
written to disk.

Don't write each single byte immediately to disk but cache all writes to the...
9923e05e 06/16/2009 11:18 pm Kevin Wolf

update_refcount: Write complete sectors

When updating the refcount blocks in update_refcount(), write complete sectors
instead of updating single entries.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
f7d0fe02 06/16/2009 11:18 pm Kevin Wolf

qcow2: Split out refcount handling

qcow2-refcount.c contains all functions which are related to cluster
allocation and management in the image file. A large part of this is the
reference counting of these clusters.

Also a header file qcow2.h is introduced which will contain the interface of...
45aba42f 06/16/2009 11:18 pm Kevin Wolf

qcow2: Split out guest cluster functions

qcow2-cluster.c contains all functions related to the management of guest
clusters, i.e. what the guest sees on its virtual disk. This code is about
mapping these guest clusters to host clusters in the image file using the...
ed6ccf0f 06/16/2009 11:18 pm Kevin Wolf

qcow2: Rename global functions

The qcow2 source is now split into several more manageable files. During the
conversion quite some functions that were static before needed to be changed to
be global to make the source compile again.

We were lucky enough not to get name conflicts with these additional global...