[PATCH] NEWS: Mention qcow2 cluster size being preserved accross snapshots and iSCSI hostdev fixes

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Thu Sep 24 13:05:04 UTC 2020


Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>
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 NEWS.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index e992fbe471..97417033f4 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -55,8 +55,20 @@ v6.8.0 (unreleased)
     the previous behavior with an improvement: it also reflects the auto-aligned
     value in the domain XML.

+  * qemu: Preserve qcow2 cluster size after external snapshots
+
+   The new overlay image which is installed on top of the current chain when
+   taking an external snapshot now preserves the cluser size of the original
+   top image to preserve any performance tuning done on the original image.
+
 * **Bug fixes**

+  * qemu: Various (i)SCSI backed hostdev fixes
+
+   (i)SCSI backed hostdevs now work again with an arbitrarily long
+   user-specified device alias and also honor the 'readonly' property after a
+   recent rewrite.
+
 * **Removed features**

   * node_device: Remove HAL node device backend
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2.26.2




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