id = 2417
title = "qemu-img allocates full size on exFAT when metadata preallocation is requested"
state = "opened"
created_at = "2024-07-01T18:53:52.619Z"
closed_at = "n/a"
labels = ["Storage"]
url = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2417"
host-os = "macOS 14.5"
host-arch = "x86"
qemu-version = "9.0.1"
guest-os = "n/a"
guest-arch = "n/a"
description = """`qemu-img` seems to preallocate the full size of a qcow2 image on exFAT rather than just the metadata when that is requested. This was initially seen via libvirt/libvirt#649. exFAT does not support sparse files."""
reproduce = """1. Run command"""
additional = "n/a"