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qcow2: Flush image after creation
authorMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:35:06 +0000 (20:35 +0200)
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:34:32 +0000 (17:34 +0100)
commitba2ab2f2ca4150a7e314fbb19fa158bd8ddc36eb
tree4b316a5fcf24d32e84fb45b7186936db8f1a6f42
parentab6f2bbb2871db8a7ed2457328e864cdf2e2fc82
qcow2: Flush image after creation

Opening the qcow2 image with BDRV_O_NO_FLUSH prevents any flushes during
the image creation. This means that the image has not yet been flushed
to disk when qemu-img create exits. This flush is delayed until the next
operation on the image involving opening it without BDRV_O_NO_FLUSH and
closing (or directly flushing) it. For large images and/or images with a
small cluster size and preallocated metadata, this flush may take a
significant amount of time and may occur unexpectedly.

Reopening the image without BDRV_O_NO_FLUSH right before the end of
qcow2_create2() results in hoisting the potentially costly flush into
the image creation, which is expected to take some time (whereas
successive image operations may be not).

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
block/qcow2.c