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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH trivial] mention -b backing_file in qemu-img create subcommand
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:27:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5056DEF1.1000507@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120916114108.2A4EA3400@gandalf.tls.msk.ru>

Am 16.09.2012 13:41, schrieb Michael Tokarev:
> The text describing `create' qemu-img subcommand refers to backing_file,
> but it is not mentioned anywhere in the syntax for this subcommand.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>

No, -b is deprecated, you should be using -o backing_file=...

What description exactly are you talking about, qemu-img.texi? It says:

> @item create [-f @var{fmt}] [-o @var{options}] @var{filename} [@var{size}]
> 
> Create the new disk image @var{filename} of size @var{size} and format
> @var{fmt}. Depending on the file format, you can add one or more @var{options}
> that enable additional features of this format.
> 
> If the option @var{backing_file} is specified, then the image will record
> only the differences from @var{backing_file}.

Which for me seemed to be a pretty clear reference to -o
backing_file=..., but if it isn't, maybe we can rephrase it somehow.

Kevin

      reply	other threads:[~2012-09-17  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-16 11:41 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH trivial] mention -b backing_file in qemu-img create subcommand Michael Tokarev
2012-09-17  8:27 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]

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