From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37318) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHNNT-0007qd-6W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 21:29:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHNNO-0005zm-NH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 21:29:23 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:58499) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHNNO-0005ze-F4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 21:29:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:29:30 +0800 From: Fam Zheng Message-ID: <20140813012930.GA4501@T430.nay.redhat.com> References: <53EA1541.50500@redhat.com> <53EA1FBB.2000909@redhat.com> <53EA332C.5020908@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] disk image: self-organized format or raw file List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Xingbo Wu Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Kirill Batuzov On Tue, 08/12 12:22, Xingbo Wu wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >=20 > > On 08/12/2014 08:14 AM, =E5=90=B4=E5=85=B4=E5=8D=9A wrote: > > >>> However FVD seems to have been ignored by community. > > >> > > >> Care to give a pointer to a URL describing the FVD format? > > >> > > >> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-01/msg00398.h= tml > > > > > > This thread could be the clearest message on FVD. > > > > That very message also points out WHY the community has appeared to > > ignore FVD: > > > > "For any feature to be seriously considered for inclusion in QEMU, > > patches need to be posted to the mailing list against the latest git > > tree. That's a pre-requisite for any real discussion." > > > > > It also has a paper published on USENIX conference. > > > https://www.usenix.org/event/atc11/tech/final_files/Tang.pdf > > > > Thanks for the references. Are you interested in posting patches to > > revive the work on that format? > > > > I'm going to study it first. It would take some time :) >=20 Please don't add your text after quote leadings "> >". You should start a= new line. Fam