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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, 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 12:47:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171208114748.GA4217@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171208095412.GC23880@stefanha-x1.localdomain>

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Am 08.12.2017 um 10:54 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben:
> 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?

I don't think this is a legacy option. As long you know what you're
doing, using it is fine.

Kevin

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-08 11:48 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 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-12-08 11:47   ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2017-12-11  9:30   ` Fam Zheng
2017-12-11  9:05 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kashyap Chamarthy

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