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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	kchamart@redhat.com, qemu-block@nongnu.org,
	Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2] qemu-img: Document --force-share / -U
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 09:54:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171208095412.GC23880@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171208014456.16635-1-famz@redhat.com>

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On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 09:44:56AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> +@item --force-share (-U)
> +
> +If specified, @code{qemu-img} will open the image with shared permissions,
> +which makes it less likely to conflict with a running guest's permissions due
> +to image locking. For example, this can be used to get the image information
> +(with 'info' subcommand) when the image is used by a running guest. Note that
> +this could produce inconsistent result because of concurrent metadata changes,
> +etc.

The documentation isn't clear on whether read-write is supported or just
read-only.

Also, should it be declared a legacy option right away to discourage
use in new software?

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-08  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-08  1:44 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] qemu-img: Document --force-share / -U Fam Zheng
2017-12-08  9:54 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2017-12-08 11:47   ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Kevin Wolf
2017-12-11  9:30   ` Fam Zheng
2017-12-11  9:05 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kashyap Chamarthy

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