From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: adrian@smop.co.uk, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img needs "-O host_device" describing
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:42:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091001234252.GB28250@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AC49B77.1020004@redhat.com>
Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 01.10.2009 12:48, schrieb Adrian Bridgett:
> > I do wonder if -O raw should warn when
> > run against output devices which aren't regular files though.
>
> I'd consider an error message pointing to host_device helpful (error
> meaning that qemu-img aborts, not just a warning). So if you like to add
> the check, go ahead.
Why not simply provide the host_device behaviour when -O raw is used
on a device? Is there anything to be gained from not doing so?
-- Jamie
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-01 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-30 21:27 [Qemu-devel] qemu-img needs "-O host_device" describing Adrian Bridgett
2009-10-01 8:16 ` [Qemu-devel] " Adrian Bridgett
2009-10-01 9:57 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2009-10-01 10:48 ` Adrian Bridgett
2009-10-01 12:07 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-10-01 23:42 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
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