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| author | Stefan Hajnoczi | 2012-07-27 10:05:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Kevin Wolf | 2012-08-06 22:39:14 +0200 |
| commit | dae8796d009ffc4d980db1f87f26eed0074be4ef (patch) | |
| tree | ad11363b1a7ce0ad52b854edeb653ad657fc7fbb /docs | |
| parent | qcow2: introduce dirty bit (diff) | |
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docs: add lazy refcounts bit to qcow2 specification
The lazy refcounts bit indicates that this image can take advantage of
the dirty bit and that refcount updates can be postponed.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/specs/qcow2.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/specs/qcow2.txt b/docs/specs/qcow2.txt index 339cdc1b58..36a559d886 100644 --- a/docs/specs/qcow2.txt +++ b/docs/specs/qcow2.txt @@ -86,7 +86,12 @@ in the description of a field. Bitmask of compatible features. An implementation can safely ignore any unknown bits that are set. - Bits 0-63: Reserved (set to 0) + Bit 0: Lazy refcounts bit. If this bit is set then + lazy refcount updates can be used. This means + marking the image file dirty and postponing + refcount metadata updates. + + Bits 1-63: Reserved (set to 0) 88 - 95: autoclear_features Bitmask of auto-clear features. An implementation may only |