From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img: add FUSE-based image access
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:02:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100328110248.GA9094@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BABA2FB.8050505@web.de>
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 06:52:59PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> This adds the "map" subcommand to qemu-img. It is able to expose the raw
> content of a disk image via a FUSE filesystem. Both the whole disk can
> be accessed, e.g. to run partitioning tools against it, as well as
> individual partitions. This allows to create new filesystems in the
> image or loop-back mount exiting ones. Using the great mountlo tool
> from the FUSE collection [1][2], the latter can even be done by non-root
> users (the former anyway).
Is there a good reason to throw this into qemu-img instead of making
a separate qemu-fuse or similar tool? It's doing something quite
different than the rest of qemu-img.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-28 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-25 17:52 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img: add FUSE-based image access Jan Kiszka
2010-03-25 20:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-25 21:46 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-03-25 22:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-25 22:27 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-03-25 22:54 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-26 7:59 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-03-28 11:02 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-03-29 7:46 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-03-29 8:57 ` Alexander Graf
2010-03-29 9:37 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-03-29 9:39 ` Alexander Graf
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