Bug 741319

Summary:	RFE: core should ask VDSM to use 'preallocate=metadata' for qcow2 disks
Product:	[Retired] oVirt	Reporter:	Yaniv Kaul <ykaul>
Component:	ovirt-engine-core	Assignee:	Ayal Baron <abaron>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	unspecified	CC:	abaron, amureini, iheim, jkt
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	FutureFeature, Reopened
Target Release:	3.3.4
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Whiteboard:	storage
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Description Yaniv Kaul 2011-09-26 15:08:21 UTC

Description of problem:
We should preallocate at least the metadata for new qcow2 disks (perhaps just system disks), to improve performance.

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Comment 1 Itamar Heim 2012-12-12 07:32:59 UTC

Closing old bugs. If this issue is still relevant/important in current version, please re-open the bug.

Comment 2 Yaniv Kaul 2012-12-12 09:50:12 UTC

I'd be happy to see this to somewhat reduce the performance gap with raw.

Comment 4 Ayal Baron 2013-09-04 22:55:50 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 672346 ***