On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 11:40 PM Chris Murphy <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 10:42 AM Richard Shaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Before I submit a BZ I figured maybe some discussion was in order.
> >
> > As the default fs is now btrfs and it's well known to be bad for VMs,
> I'm surprised this wasn't already implemented.
> >
>
> It is implemented.
> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2020-July/msg01377.html
>
> Applies to virt-install, virt-manager, GNOME Boxes, and Cockpit.
>
> If you do a clean install and haven't setup a storage pool yet before
> copying over VM images from some other source, they won't be nodatacow
> because the enclosing directory isn't yet nodatacow.
>

Ahh.. That's good at least. I have a fresh system install but using an
existing /home so I had to do it manually.

It should be possible, however, to mark the images folder +C even if it
wouldn't affect existing images.

Thanks,
Richard
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