On 28.06.20 13:02, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> Traditional qcow2 images don't allow preallocation if a backing file
> is set. This is because once a cluster is allocated there is no way to
> tell that its data should be read from the backing file.
> 
> Extended L2 entries have individual allocation bits for each
> subcluster, and therefore it is perfectly possible to have an
> allocated cluster with all its subclusters unallocated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block/qcow2.c              | 7 ++++---
>  tests/qemu-iotests/206.out | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>