From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MLcqv-0004Tg-Rw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:54:25 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MLcqs-0004Kw-0I for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:54:25 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57577 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MLcqr-0004Kl-PC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:54:21 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:40190) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MLcqr-0003ue-5x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:54:21 -0400 Message-ID: <4A4A0AB9.30401@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:53:13 +0200 From: Kevin Wolf MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Warn if a qcow (not qcow2) file is opened References: <1246284289-25394-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <20090630120534.GC27242@amit-x200.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20090630120534.GC27242@amit-x200.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Amit Shah Cc: Avi Kivity , kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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 The qcow block driver format is no longer maintained and likely contains 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