[PVE-User] [pve-devel] Proxmox VE 4.0 beta2 released!

[Emmanuel Kasper]

Hi Gilberto

On 09/10/2015 02:33 PM, Gilberto Nunes wrote:
> Well... AFAIK, DRBD9 storage only support RAW disc, and RAW disc do not
> support online resize disk, right? Only QCOW2 support it... Forgive me if I
> am wrong!

No, online resizing does not depend on QCOW2 vs RAW

You can refer to the wiki article explaining how to resize disks online:
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Resize_disks

IIRC, what you lose when using RAW images is the ability to do online
snapshots of the system,  but you gain a bit of performance for some
workloads
cf
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Performance_Tweaks#Use_raw_disk_image_and_not_qcow2

Emmanuel