F20 System Wide Change: Visible Cloud

Florian Weimer fweimer at redhat.com
Mon Jul 15 11:55:18 UTC 2013


On 07/15/2013 01:47 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Updating to qcow2 to support xz (or some other algo) as a built-in
> compression choice would likely give better results.

Is the compressed image still seekable?  If yes, that constrains the 
window/block size and limits the gains from switching compressors.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team


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