Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/10] qemu-img: Prepare for locked images

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 05:46:22PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> This patch extends qemu-img for working with locked images. It prints a
> helpful error message when trying to access a locked image read-write,
> and adds a 'qemu-img force-unlock' command as well as a 'qemu-img check
> -r all --force' option in order to override a lock left behind after a
> qemu crash.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>


> diff --git a/qemu-img-cmds.hx b/qemu-img-cmds.hx
> index 9567774..dd4aebc 100644
> --- a/qemu-img-cmds.hx
> +++ b/qemu-img-cmds.hx
> @@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ STEXI
>  ETEXI
>  
>  DEF("check", img_check,
> -    "check [-q] [-f fmt] [--output=ofmt] [-r [leaks | all]] [-T src_cache] filename")
> +    "check [-q] [-f fmt] [--force] [--output=ofmt] [-r [leaks | all]] [-T src_cache] filename")
>  STEXI
> -@item check [-q] [-f @var{fmt}] [--output=@var{ofmt}] [-r [leaks | all]] [-T @var{src_cache}] @var{filename}
> +@item check [-q] [-f @var{fmt}] [--force] [--output=@var{ofmt}] [-r [leaks | all]] [-T @var{src_cache}] @var{filename}
>  ETEXI

FWIW, my patch to add a new --source arg to qemu-img commands
means you wouldn't need to keep inventing new command line arguments
for each new block driver option you want to support usage of in
qemu-img - they'll all be accessible:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg04021.html

Regards,
Daniel
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