On 10/27/2012 04:37 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
Hi there,
I'm just curious: Where does the "Copy on Write" (from QCOW) comes
from? Everything I've been reading regarding how snapshots work with
QEMU points to a "redirect on write" approach. Or is the COW part
related to some other internal mechanism (not related to snapshots)?
Probably a question for qemu-devel, but I think the qcow name was derived from
the cow format from user mode linux. The cow format's primary feature was
essentially qcow's backing_file file feature, so the name is likely derived
from that, and not necessarily qcow2's snapshotting abilities.
- Cole