Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] qed: add support for Copy-on-Read

2011-04-01 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 01.04.2011 14:36, schrieb Anthony Liguori: > On 04/01/2011 06:11 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: >> Am 31.03.2011 03:08, schrieb Anthony Liguori: >>> When creating an image using qemu-img, just pass '-o copy_on_read' and then >>> whenever QED reads from a backing file, it will write the block to the QED >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] qed: add support for Copy-on-Read

2011-04-01 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 04/01/2011 06:11 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: Am 31.03.2011 03:08, schrieb Anthony Liguori: When creating an image using qemu-img, just pass '-o copy_on_read' and then whenever QED reads from a backing file, it will write the block to the QED file after the read completes ensuring that you only fetc

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] qed: add support for Copy-on-Read

2011-04-01 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 31.03.2011 03:08, schrieb Anthony Liguori: > When creating an image using qemu-img, just pass '-o copy_on_read' and then > whenever QED reads from a backing file, it will write the block to the QED > file after the read completes ensuring that you only fetch from the backing > device once. As y

[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] qed: add support for Copy-on-Read

2011-03-30 Thread Anthony Liguori
When creating an image using qemu-img, just pass '-o copy_on_read' and then whenever QED reads from a backing file, it will write the block to the QED file after the read completes ensuring that you only fetch from the backing device once. This is very useful for streaming images over a slow conne