From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:53:25 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: qcow2: Change default cluster size to 64k
X-Git-Tag: v0.11.0-rc0~374
X-Git-Url: http://xenbits.xensource.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9ccb258e285c7ab50a45b1e5760fa2bf6814b06b;p=qemu-xen-4.4-testing.git

qcow2: Change default cluster size to 64k

Larger cluster sizes mean less metadata. This has been discussion a few times,
let's do it now. This turns 64k clusters on by default for new images.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/block/qcow2.c b/block/qcow2.c
index c2be42ed3..14d8751a9 100644
--- a/block/qcow2.c
+++ b/block/qcow2.c
@@ -1703,7 +1703,7 @@ static int qcow_create(const char *filename, QEMUOptionParameter *options)
     const char *backing_fmt = NULL;
     uint64_t sectors = 0;
     int flags = 0;
-    size_t cluster_size = 4096;
+    size_t cluster_size = 65536;
 
     /* Read out options */
     while (options && options->name) {