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9ccb258e 06/16/2009 11:18 pm Kevin Wolf

qcow2: Change default cluster size to 64k

Larger cluster sizes mean less metadata. This has been discussion a few times,
let's do it now. This turns 64k clusters on by default for new images.

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...
c142442b 06/16/2009 11:18 pm Kevin Wolf

qcow2: Split out snapshot functions

qcow2-snapshot.c contains the code related to snapshotting.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
db08adf5 06/06/2009 06:38 pm Kevin Wolf

qemu-img: Print available options with -o ?

This patch adds a small help text to each of the options in the block drivers
which can be displayed by using qemu-img create -f fmt -o ?

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>
c16b5a2c 05/27/2009 05:46 pm Christoph Hellwig

fully split aio_pool from BlockDriver

Now that we have a separate aio pool structure we can remove those
aio pool details from BlockDriver.

Every driver supporting AIO now needs to declare a static AIOPool
with the aiocb size and the cancellation method. This cleans up the...
a980c98c 05/27/2009 05:45 pm Kevin Wolf

qcow2: Update multiple refcounts at once

Don't write each single changed refcount block entry to the disk after it is
written, but update all entries of the block and write all of them at once.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
44ff42de 05/27/2009 05:45 pm Kevin Wolf

qcow2: Refactor update_refcount

This is a preparation patch with no functional changes. It moves the allocation
of new refcounts block to a new function and makes update_cluster_refcount (for
one cluster) call update_refcount (for multiple clusters) instead the other way...
ade40677 05/27/2009 05:45 pm Kevin Wolf

qcow/qcow2: Drop synchronous qcow_write()

There is only one (internal) user left and it can be switched to the normal
emulation provided in block.c

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
73c632ed 05/22/2009 06:50 pm Kevin Wolf

qcow2: Allow different cluster sizes

Add an option to specify the cluster size of a newly created qcow2 image.
Default is 4k which is the same value that was hard-coded before.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
0e7e1989 05/22/2009 06:50 pm Kevin Wolf

Convert all block drivers to new bdrv_create

Now we can make use of the newly introduced option structures. Instead of
having bdrv_create carry more and more parameters (which are format specific in
most cases), just pass a option structure as defined by the driver itself....
eb0b64f7 05/21/2009 04:40 am malc

Do not attempt to allocate sn_tab when there are no snapshots

This was caught by a7d27b536ffc0773028a90f14580552c0c3ddb2a which
aborted on this attempt, thanks to Alex Ivanov for report.

Signed-off-by: malc <>
019d6b8f 05/15/2009 12:13 am Anthony Liguori

Move block drivers into their own directory

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>