On a system affected by the issue I was upgrading to focal-proposed:
The time on ZFS got down from >20sec to ~<2sec now and in ps I can catch it is back on metadata as intended:
$ ps axlf | grep -e qemu-img | grep -v grep 0 0 48981 11928 20 0 164860 5020 ? Sl ? 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o preallocation=metadata,compat=1.1,lazy_refcounts /var/lib/libvirt/images/ubuntu20.04.qcow2 15728640K
Setting verified
On a system affected by the issue I was upgrading to focal-proposed:
The time on ZFS got down from >20sec to ~<2sec now and in ps I can catch it is back on metadata as intended:
$ ps axlf | grep -e qemu-img | grep -v grep metadata, compat= 1.1,lazy_ refcounts /var/lib/ libvirt/ images/ ubuntu20. 04.qcow2 15728640K
0 0 48981 11928 20 0 164860 5020 ? Sl ? 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o preallocation=
Setting verified