From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHE2T-0001V6-7A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:31:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHE2M-0007AR-Dl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:31:04 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:40355) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHE2M-0007A8-4w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:30:58 -0400 Message-ID: <53EA332C.5020908@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:30:52 -0600 From: Eric Blake MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <53EA1541.50500@redhat.com> <53EA1FBB.2000909@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mOsBIesXkM74g39nvjFmo9tjBkJlhm0a3" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] disk image: self-organized format or raw file List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: =?UTF-8?B?5ZC05YW05Y2a?= Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Kirill Batuzov This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --mOsBIesXkM74g39nvjFmo9tjBkJlhm0a3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 08/12/2014 08:14 AM, =E5=90=B4=E5=85=B4=E5=8D=9A wrote: >>> However FVD seems to have been ignored by community. >> >> Care to give a pointer to a URL describing the FVD format? >> >> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-01/msg00398.html >=20 > This thread could be the clearest message on FVD. That very message also points out WHY the community has appeared to ignore FVD: "For any feature to be seriously considered for inclusion in QEMU, patches need to be posted to the mailing list against the latest git tree. That's a pre-requisite for any real discussion." > It also has a paper published on USENIX conference. > https://www.usenix.org/event/atc11/tech/final_files/Tang.pdf Thanks for the references. Are you interested in posting patches to revive the work on that format? --=20 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --mOsBIesXkM74g39nvjFmo9tjBkJlhm0a3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJT6jMsAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqVF8H/RLj9sHJtmHEZfiMcYert6Hf mIikvgV22a8hTrJKLLN+Ape5XtBiSNounr4qpwjs3MFHovO8m4EX4Ipf7h3LfL8u rdqCrBd3MkeztOAO1yAaF+Kvpx8eQllp+da7aHiLssIcbfsnrcvq1fNRbJuzCWYq YaK3VxaJmoZsHUTflpEz1HDALRMrfIWMD7F2fWOLHybwKfDe3kL7+45uqeeprZmr U2MF1X63w/UiGC4Z8InPaKqbzAlxh+eSAj6aYGaAJ/wspudHzeJ1pT9X4+ZUSKMm 6VA4NXu7iRBHaypQXbipqMk9cEdb8Q4p6QtOqgXUT72WCJ0u+wHeLMumbNjJdi0= =/6C7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mOsBIesXkM74g39nvjFmo9tjBkJlhm0a3--