[pve-devel] template considerations

[Dietmar Maurer]

> > One problem I see is that we do not want to call 'qemu-img info' for a
> > normal content list, so that list would not include that information.
> >
> Could the information not be stored some how at creation time? The image
> is read-only and as such cannot change after creation in which case the info
> stored at creation time will always be same through out the image life time.

Sure, we could cache the information returned by qemu-img. But it is necessarily
needed, so it is unclear to add additional complexity for the cache.