From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Wolf Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Warn if a qcow (not qcow2) file is opened Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:53:13 +0200 Message-ID: <4A4A0AB9.30401@redhat.com> References: <1246284289-25394-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <20090630120534.GC27242@amit-x200.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Avi Kivity , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Amit Shah Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:57773 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752497AbZF3MyR (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:54:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090630120534.GC27242@amit-x200.redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Amit Shah schrieb: > On (Mon) Jun 29 2009 [17:04:49], Avi Kivity wrote: >> The qcow block driver format is no longer maintained and likely contains >> serious data corruptors. Urge users to stay away for it, and advertise >> the new and improved replacement. > > Does this also print the message at the time of creating the image? (And > isn't qcow the default image format?) No, I don't think the image is opened by qemu-img create, create is a different operation. And the default format is raw. Kevin