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Chunyan Liu a9fd30e633 storagevol: add nocow to vol xml
Add 'nocow' to storage volume xml so that user can have an option
to set NOCOW flag to the newly created volume. It's useful on btrfs
file system to enhance performance.

Btrfs has low performance when hosting VM images, even more when the guest
in those VM are also using btrfs as file system. One way to mitigate this
bad performance is to turn off COW attributes on VM files. Generally, there
are two ways to turn off COW on btrfs: a) by mounting fs with nodatacow,
then all newly created files will be NOCOW. b) per file. Add the NOCOW file
attribute. It could only be done to empty or new files.

This patch tries the second way, according to 'nocow' option, it could set
NOCOW flag per file:
for raw file images, handle 'nocow' in libvirt code; for non-raw file images,
pass 'nocow=on' option to qemu-img, and let qemu-img to handle that (requires
qemu-img version >= 2.1).

Signed-off-by: Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>
2014-07-16 13:35:20 +02:00
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devhelp maint: consolidate several .gitignore files 2012-02-03 15:27:16 -07:00
html maint: consolidate several .gitignore files 2012-02-03 15:27:16 -07:00
internals util: fix a typo in virprocess.c and docs 2014-03-27 06:58:46 -06:00
schemas storagevol: add nocow to vol xml 2014-07-16 13:35:20 +02:00
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api_extension.html.in maint: improve VIR_ERR_INVALID_CONN usage 2014-01-06 21:41:02 -07:00
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drvbhyve.html.in docs: bhyve driver documentation improvements 2014-06-01 20:36:13 +04:00
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formatdomain.html.in docs: formatdomain.html fixes 2014-07-04 18:28:39 +02:00
formatdomaincaps.html.in Introduce domain_capabilities 2014-07-03 12:22:37 +02:00
formatnetwork.html.in docs: document that vfio is default for hostdev networks too 2014-04-18 16:42:04 +03:00
formatnode.html.in nodedev: Introduce <pci-express/> to PCI devices 2014-06-16 17:40:49 +02:00
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formatsnapshot.html.in doc: Document that snapshot name of block-backed disk isn't autogenerated 2014-07-14 09:26:26 +02:00
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hacking.html.in docs: Fix broken link in the HACKING page 2014-07-04 18:28:24 +02:00
hooks.html.in network: Introduce network hooks 2014-02-18 14:46:49 +01:00
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remote.html.in Fix typos in various docs 2013-12-02 10:21:26 +08:00
search.php.code.in docs: autogenerate search.php 2012-08-10 10:58:38 +02:00
search.php.in Repair the search on libvirt.org 2013-09-12 17:18:32 +08:00
secureusage.html.in Add some notes about secure usage of libvirt 2013-10-15 11:33:01 +01:00
securityprocess.html.in Fix three minor typos 2013-11-26 18:37:09 +08:00
site.xsl Fix docs generator regression in previous commit 2013-05-03 16:58:46 +01:00
sitemap.html.in Introduce domain_capabilities 2014-07-03 12:22:37 +02:00
storage.html.in gluster: Fix "key" attribute for gluster volumes 2014-04-01 08:44:34 +02:00
structures.fig Remove trailing whitespace from all xfig files 2011-10-28 10:11:16 +01:00
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