xemu/tests/qemu-iotests/036.out
Stefan Hajnoczi bfe8043e92 qcow2: implement lazy refcounts
Lazy refcounts is a performance optimization for qcow2 that postpones
refcount metadata updates and instead marks the image dirty.  In the
case of crash or power failure the image will be left in a dirty state
and repaired next time it is opened.

Reducing metadata I/O is important for cache=writethrough and
cache=directsync because these modes guarantee that data is on disk
after each write (hence we cannot take advantage of caching updates in
RAM).  Refcount metadata is not needed for guest->file block address
translation and therefore does not need to be on-disk at the time of
write completion - this is the motivation behind the lazy refcount
optimization.

The lazy refcount optimization must be enabled at image creation time:

  qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compat=1.1,lazy_refcounts=on a.qcow2 10G
  qemu-system-x86_64 -drive if=virtio,file=a.qcow2,cache=writethrough

Update qemu-iotests 031 and 036 since the extension header size changes
when we add feature bit table entries.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2012-08-06 22:39:14 +02:00

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QA output created by 036
=== Create image with unknown autoclear feature bit ===
Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
magic 0x514649fb
version 3
backing_file_offset 0x0
backing_file_size 0x0
cluster_bits 16
size 67108864
crypt_method 0
l1_size 1
l1_table_offset 0x30000
refcount_table_offset 0x10000
refcount_table_clusters 1
nb_snapshots 0
snapshot_offset 0x0
incompatible_features 0x0
compatible_features 0x0
autoclear_features 0x8000000000000000
refcount_order 4
header_length 104
=== Repair image ===
No errors were found on the image.
magic 0x514649fb
version 3
backing_file_offset 0x0
backing_file_size 0x0
cluster_bits 16
size 67108864
crypt_method 0
l1_size 1
l1_table_offset 0x30000
refcount_table_offset 0x10000
refcount_table_clusters 1
nb_snapshots 0
snapshot_offset 0x0
incompatible_features 0x0
compatible_features 0x0
autoclear_features 0x0
refcount_order 4
header_length 104
Header extension:
magic 0x6803f857
length 96
data <binary>
*** done