On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 09:20:32AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 4:11 pm, Fabio Valentini
<decathorpe(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Maybe libvirt / gnome-boxes / virt-manager should do that by default if
> it detects that the backing storage for an allocated VM image is on
> btrfs (if it doesn't do that already)?
Yeah that's the plan:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes/-/issues/88
But disabling CoW (and checksumming, which is implied by nocow)
removes important reliability features from btrfs. It's a trade off
which should be clear to the user.
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