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  • Stefan Hajnoczi's avatar
    docs: add dirty bit to qcow2 specification · 0f6d767a
    Stefan Hajnoczi authored Jul 27, 2012
    
    
    The dirty bit will make it possible to perform lazy refcount updates,
    where the image file is not kept consistent all the time.  Upon opening
    a dirty image file, it is necessary to perform a consistency check and
    repair any incorrect refcounts.
    
    Therefore the dirty bit must be an incompatible feature bit.  We don't
    want old programs accessing a file with stale refcounts.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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