From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42862) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUeIE-0006qe-1D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:06:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUeI8-0005C3-1p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:06:17 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:62906) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUeI7-0005BZ-PO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:06:11 -0400 From: Kevin Wolf Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:05:00 +0200 Message-Id: <1381503951-27985-11-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1381503951-27985-1-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com> References: <1381503951-27985-1-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 10/61] qcow2: Alignment of snapshot table entries List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: anthony@codemonkey.ws Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org From: Max Reitz The qcow2 specification does not explicitly state so far that every snapshot table entry is aligned to 8 bytes. QEMU, in contrast, does this alignment, thus it should be properly documented (which this patch does). Signed-off-by: Max Reitz Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf --- docs/specs/qcow2.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/specs/qcow2.txt b/docs/specs/qcow2.txt index 33eca36..f19536a 100644 --- a/docs/specs/qcow2.txt +++ b/docs/specs/qcow2.txt @@ -355,3 +355,6 @@ Snapshot table entry: variable: Unique ID string for the snapshot (not null terminated) variable: Name of the snapshot (not null terminated) + + variable: Padding to round up the snapshot table entry size to the + next multiple of 8. -- 1.8.1.4