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author | Hu Tao | 2014-09-10 11:05:48 +0200 |
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committer | Kevin Wolf | 2014-09-12 15:43:06 +0200 |
commit | 06247428be8037b3739280f82cb29efe8397695f (patch) | |
tree | ea73080ed5104a4fbb89519da56469566b3a141c /qemu-doc.texi | |
parent | qapi: introduce PreallocMode and new PreallocModes full and falloc. (diff) | |
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raw-posix: Add falloc and full preallocation option
This patch adds a new option preallocation for raw format, and implements
falloc and full preallocation.
Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi index 2b232ae8b7..1f289d6a08 100644 --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ b/qemu-doc.texi @@ -527,6 +527,15 @@ Linux or NTFS on Windows), then only the written sectors will reserve space. Use @code{qemu-img info} to know the real size used by the image or @code{ls -ls} on Unix/Linux. +Supported options: +@table @code +@item preallocation +Preallocation mode (allowed values: @code{off}, @code{falloc}, @code{full}). +@code{falloc} mode preallocates space for image by calling posix_fallocate(). +@code{full} mode preallocates space for image by writing zeros to underlying +storage. +@end table + @item qcow2 QEMU image format, the most versatile format. Use it to have smaller images (useful if your filesystem does not supports holes, for example |