From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu: block.c: introducing "fmt:FMT:" prefix to image-filenames
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:23:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49668B01.60002@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090108231854.GB12848@shareable.org>
Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Uri Lublin wrote:
>
>> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>
>>> Yes the format you write into the qcow2 header can still use the
>>> fmt:qcow2: prefix - just no need to expose that particular qcow2
>>> specific implementation detail on the CLI.
>>>
>> OK. I'll prepare a patch that adds '-F fmt' to 'qemu-img create -b ...'
>>
>
> Will it break backing files whose filename begins with "fmt:"?
>
> Just because I hate hidden "some filenames work, some filenames break
> mysteriously, and of course it's not documented" dodgy hacks.
>
I'm pretty certain that you couldn't do that today in QEMU. The colon
has always been used for protocol checking and if the protocol is
invalid, I think we throw an error.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> -- Jamie
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-08 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-08 18:15 [Qemu-devel] qemu: block.c: introducing "fmt:FMT:" prefix to image-filenames Uri Lublin
2009-01-08 18:52 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-01-08 19:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-08 19:09 ` Uri Lublin
2009-01-08 19:13 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-01-08 19:15 ` Uri Lublin
2009-01-08 23:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-08 23:23 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-01-09 0:15 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-09 9:17 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-01-11 20:42 ` Uri Lublin
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