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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why QCOW1? (was: [PATCH v2] kvm tool: add QCOW verions 1
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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:45:54 +0300
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> What hasn't been discussed much is the other half of Kevin's remark: why
> QCOW1?

QCOW1 was simpler to implement as the first non-raw image format.

                        Pekka