From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFyvn-0002FG-SH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 03:20:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFyvm-0008E6-MZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 03:20:07 -0400 From: Markus Armbruster References: <20160622171935.GA4620@localhost> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:19:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20160622171935.GA4620@localhost> (Reda Sallahi's message of "Wed, 22 Jun 2016 19:19:44 +0200") Message-ID: <87mvmc74o4.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/1] Subcommand dd for qemu-img List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Reda Sallahi Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kwolf@redhat.com, famz@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com, qemu-block@nongnu.org, mreitz@redhat.com Reda Sallahi 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