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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:45:42 +0000
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/2] block: Warn on insecure format
 probing
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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, jcody@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com

Can you add something like:

  -drive ...,format=unsafe-probe

so it does the probing anyway, even though we know it's unsafe?

This will minimize the churn needed in libguestfs to make this work.

Rich.

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