Bug 698924
Summary: | qcow2: Reads fail with backing file smaller than snapshot | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | juzhang <juzhang> |
Component: | kvm | Assignee: | Kevin Wolf <kwolf> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 5.7 | CC: | gcosta, juzhang, kwolf, michen, mkenneth, tburke, virt-maint |
Target Milestone: | rc | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
OS: | Unspecified | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | 688147 | Environment: | |
Last Closed: | 2011-06-06 14:39:49 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 688147 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 580949 |
Comment 1
Kevin Wolf
2011-05-03 15:23:54 UTC
Kevin, What is the proposed solution for RHEL5, then ? Not worth fixing/backporting the feature. You can't create backing files that are smaller than the disk in RHEL 5 and it looks as if nobody has ever tried in practice. |