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Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 20:05:00 +0100
From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Geometry and blocksize support for backing devices
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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Am 06.11.2014 18:24, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> 
> On 06/11/2014 16:58, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> Now here comes my proposal:
>> Markus statement brought up an idea of special casing DASDs support. We can
>> call an ioctl BIODASDINFO on the block device that will only succeed if the host
>> disk is really a dasd. We could enable the auto detection for that case.
> 
> That would be enough for me, actually.

Its certainly enough for us as well.

Stefan, Markus, Kevin, can Kate go on with this direction?

Christian