Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] qemu-img: Document --force-share / -U

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 11.12.2017 um 10:33 hat Fam Zheng geschrieben:
> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> v3: Document that the option is not allowed for read-write. [Stefan]
> 
> v2: - "code{qemu-img}". [Kashyap, Eric]
>     - "etc.." -> "etc.".
> ---
>  qemu-img.texi | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi
> index fdcf120f36..d85ace73f0 100644
> --- a/qemu-img.texi
> +++ b/qemu-img.texi
> @@ -57,6 +57,15 @@ exclusive with the @var{-O} parameters. It is currently required to also use
>  the @var{-n} parameter to skip image creation. This restriction may be relaxed
>  in a future release.
>  
> +@item --force-share (-U)
> +
> +If specified, @code{qemu-img} will open the image with shared permissions,
> +which makes it less likely to conflict with a running guest's permissions due
> +to image locking. For example, this can be used to get the image information
> +(with 'info' subcommand) when the image is used by a running guest. Note that
> +this could produce inconsistent result because of concurrent metadata changes,
> +etc. This option is only allowed when opening image in read-only mode.

I think "an image", "the image" or "images" could all work in this
context, but just "image" without an article doesn't.

Kevin