From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Warn if a qcow (not qcow2) file is opened
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:53:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A4A0AB9.30401@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090630120534.GC27242@amit-x200.redhat.com>
Amit Shah schrieb:
> On (Mon) Jun 29 2009 [17:04:49], Avi Kivity wrote:
>> The qcow block driver format is no longer maintained and likely contains
>> serious data corruptors. Urge users to stay away for it, and advertise
>> the new and improved replacement.
>
> Does this also print the message at the time of creating the image? (And
> isn't qcow the default image format?)
No, I don't think the image is opened by qemu-img create, create is a
different operation. And the default format is raw.
Kevin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-30 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-29 14:04 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Warn if a qcow (not qcow2) file is opened Avi Kivity
2009-06-30 8:34 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-30 13:32 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-06-30 13:53 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-30 13:57 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-30 14:21 ` Paul Brook
2009-06-30 14:40 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-06-30 16:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-01 17:14 ` Andreas Färber
2009-07-02 7:22 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-30 12:05 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-30 12:53 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
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