New features
- block/curl
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Matthew Booth fixed a few bugs affecting modern curl, and now
it works reliably
Daniel Barboza added timeouts
I added cookie support
(for VMware vCenter)
- block/ssh
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I added this driver
(for Xen)
It needs a bit of work still
- copy-on-read
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- discard & fstrim
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qemu has had excellent discard support for a few years
I added support for fstrim to ntfs-3g
Massively reduces the time taken to copy guests
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json:
paths
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Less error-prone than ordinary qemu block paths
- qcow2 v3
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Several enhancements, but the most important is support for zero clusters