From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
qemu-block@nongnu.org, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11 v2] file-posix: Clear out first sector in hdev_create
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:53:44 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170831065344.GB14896@lemon.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170811080939.22304-1-famz@redhat.com>
On Fri, 08/11 16:09, Fam Zheng wrote:
> People get surprised when, after "qemu-img create -f raw /dev/sdX", they
> still see qcow2 with "qemu-img info", if previously the bdev had a qcow2
> header. While this is natural because raw doesn't need to write any
> magic bytes during creation, hdev_create is free to clear out the first
> sector to make sure the stale qcow2 header doesn't cause such confusion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Gentle ping as a reminder for 2.11 as we have now released 2.10.
Fam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-31 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-11 8:09 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11 v2] file-posix: Clear out first sector in hdev_create Fam Zheng
2017-08-11 14:42 ` Eric Blake
2017-08-12 1:06 ` Fam Zheng
2017-08-31 6:53 ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2017-09-07 15:07 ` Kevin Wolf
2017-09-08 9:44 ` Fam Zheng
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