From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, sandeen@redhat.com, adilger@dilger.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4 v4] e2image: Support for conversion QCOW2 image into raw
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 12:18:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110518161823.GD29368@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305721247-9598-1-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com>
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 02:20:47PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> This commit adds support for converting QCOW2 image created previously
> with e2image into raw image. The QCOW2 image is detected automatically,
> so there is not new option. Just use following command:
>
> e2image -r image.qcow image.raw
>
> No that this tool is aimed to quickly convert qcow2 image created with
> e2image into raw image. In order to improve speed we are doing some
> assumption I believe might not be true for regular qcow2 images. So it
> was not tested with regular QCOW2 images and it might not work with
> them. The intention of this tool is only convert images previously
> created by e2image.
>
> Note that there is nothing special with QCOW2 images created by e2images
> and it can be used with tools like qemu-img, or qemu-nbd without any
> problems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Applied to the e2fsprogs next branch.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-18 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-18 11:36 [PATCH 1/4] e2fsprogs: Add memory allocation and zero-out helpers Lukas Czerner
2011-05-18 11:36 ` [PATCH 2/4 v3] e2image: Add support for qcow2 format Lukas Czerner
2011-05-18 16:17 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-18 16:20 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-05-18 20:59 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-05-18 11:36 ` [PATCH 3/4 v3] e2image: Support for conversion QCOW2 image into raw Lukas Czerner
2011-05-18 12:20 ` [PATCH 3/4 v4] " Lukas Czerner
2011-05-18 16:18 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2011-05-18 12:23 ` [PATCH 3/4 v3] " Lukas Czerner
2011-05-18 12:22 ` [PATCH 1/4] e2fsprogs: Add memory allocation and zero-out helpers Lukas Czerner
[not found] ` <1305718615-5991-4-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com>
2011-05-18 16:19 ` [PATCH 4/4 v3] tests: New i_e2image test to validate image creation/conversion Ted Ts'o
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