From 4b971cb8cd6f62c73a97630cf9e903c4f22ee41d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Scott Lowe <scott.lowe@scottlowe.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 21:38:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify note on QCOW2 uploads

Reworded paragraph on converting images to QCOW2 before upload, since
it might be faster to upload a smaller QCOW2 image instead of a RAW image.

Change-Id: I32fc57d2dda36c5d3c1f5d21aaaaa2a8044cd0a2
Closes-Bug: 1384011
---
 doc/image-guide/ch_introduction.xml | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/image-guide/ch_introduction.xml b/doc/image-guide/ch_introduction.xml
index e44dc0bd44..e360bf3ad6 100644
--- a/doc/image-guide/ch_introduction.xml
+++ b/doc/image-guide/ch_introduction.xml
@@ -41,8 +41,7 @@
                         <para>Support for snapshots</para>
                     </listitem>
                 </itemizedlist></para>
-            <para>Because qcow2 is sparse, it's often faster to convert a raw image to qcow2 and upload
-                it then to upload the raw file.</para>
+            <para>Because qcow2 is sparse, qcow2 images are typically smaller than raw images. Smaller images mean faster uploads, so it's often faster to convert a raw image to qcow2 for uploading instead of uploading the raw file directly.</para>
             <para>
                 <note>
                     <para>Because raw images don't support snapshots, OpenStack Compute will