From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ted Ts'o Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4 v4] e2image: Support for conversion QCOW2 image into raw Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 12:18:23 -0400 Message-ID: <20110518161823.GD29368@thunk.org> References: <1305718615-5991-3-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com> <1305721247-9598-1-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, sandeen@redhat.com, adilger@dilger.ca To: Lukas Czerner Return-path: Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:60001 "EHLO test.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756756Ab1ERQSZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2011 12:18:25 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1305721247-9598-1-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 Applied to the e2fsprogs next branch. - Ted