Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3] add qemu-img convert -C option (skip target volume creation)

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:58:51AM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 12.08.2013 um 11:44 hat Alex Bligh geschrieben:
> > 
> > 
> > --On 12 August 2013 10:42:05 +0100 Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > >Add a -C option to skip volume creation on qemu-img convert.
> > >This is useful for targets such as rbd / ceph, where the
> > >target volume may already exist; we cannot always rely on
> > >qemu-img convert to create the image, as dependent on the
> > >output format, there may be parameters which are not possible
> > >to specify through the qemu-img convert command line.
> > >
> > >Code:
> > >
> > >Author: Alexandre Derumier <aderumier@odiso.com>
> > >Signed-off-by: Alexandre Derumier <aderumier@odiso.com>
> > >Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
> > >
> > >Documentaton:
> > 
> > Would you consider taking this for 1.6? It's really hard
> > to do rbd work without it, and it's pretty harmless.
> 
> Stefan's decision, but considering that the very last release candidate
> is planned for today, I doubt that he's willing to take it. At least I
> wouldn't. Feature freeze was long ago, and even for real bug fixes I
> would be careful at this point and take nothing that isn't critical.
> 
> And even if he did take it, I wouldn't be surprised if Anthony simply
> refused to pull.

It's too late.  At this stage I'm just looking out for critical bug
fixes.

Stefan