From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TDWgB-0000gQ-MV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:27:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TDWg5-0005eP-Jn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:27:43 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:21986) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TDWg5-0005eF-Bg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:27:37 -0400 Message-ID: <5056DEF1.1000507@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:27:29 +0200 From: Kevin Wolf MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20120916114108.2A4EA3400@gandalf.tls.msk.ru> In-Reply-To: <20120916114108.2A4EA3400@gandalf.tls.msk.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH trivial] mention -b backing_file in qemu-img create subcommand List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Michael Tokarev Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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 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