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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC][STABLE 0.13] Revert "qcow2: Use
 bdrv_(p)write_sync for metadata writes"
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, stefanha@gmail.com, mjt@tls.msk.ru, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

  On 08/25/2010 05:19 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:46:15AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> BTW, something that had the features of qcow2 that people actually used
>> andwas fully asynchronous, performed well, and had a high degree of
>> confidence in data integrity would be a major step forward, not backwards.
> That means you'll actually need to agree on a feature set first.
>

:)

The next image format should be raw-over-btrfs.  And we need to continue 
developing qcow2, we can't keep moving users from format to format just 
because it's complicated.

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