From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: Reda Sallahi <fullmanet@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kwolf@redhat.com, famz@redhat.com,
stefanha@redhat.com, qemu-block@nongnu.org, mreitz@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/1] Subcommand dd for qemu-img
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:19:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvmc74o4.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160622171935.GA4620@localhost> (Reda Sallahi's message of "Wed, 22 Jun 2016 19:19:44 +0200")
Reda Sallahi <fullmanet@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have a first patch that adds a minimal subcommand dd for qemu-img that
> is similar to dd(1) so this is a work-in-progress.
>
> So far it implements the bs and count options with of course the if and of
> options (e.g. ./qemu-img dd if=foo.raw of=foo.qcow2 bs=128K count=10 -O qcow2).
>
> There is no output with statistics for now so this acts like dd status=none.
dd's syntax looks more like JCL than Unix. Some think that was a prank.
It's been faithfully preserved through decades, and now we're even
cloning it. Funny :)
PS: Please make sure your patches are properly threaded, i.e. are
replies to the cover letter.
http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch#Use_git_format-patch
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2016-06-22 17:19 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/1] Subcommand dd for qemu-img Reda Sallahi
2016-06-23 7:19 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
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