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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 12:30:35 +0200
From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] file-posix: Clear out first sector in
 hdev_create
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To: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>, qemu-block@nongnu.org

Am 08.09.2017 um 11:44 hat Fam Zheng geschrieben:
> 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>

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin