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From: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
To: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
	Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>,
	Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Qemu-block <qemu-block@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] using "qemu-img convert -O qcow2" to convert qcow v1 to v2 creates a qcow v3 file?
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:30:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e76811c5-6a5a-cf5e-2571-9e112e609740@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20253223-df8f-162d-b8c8-dfa56af9fffd@redhat.com>



On 11/14/2017 01:46 PM, Max Reitz wrote:
> On 2017-11-14 19:45, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 14.11.2017 14:32, Max Reitz wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Well, do you want to document it?  I'd rather deprecate it altogether.
>>
>> Maybe a first step could be to change qemu-img so that it refuses to
>> create new qcow1 images (but still can convert them into other formats).
>> So basically make qcow1 read-only?
> 
> Yep, and the actual first step to that is to make it issue a deprecation
> warning when creating qcow v1 images (which is what I proposed). :-)
> 
> Max
> 

Deprecation warning is good.

In future versions you can shimmy it behind a
--no-really-I-want-this-old-format option, I think we ought to support
creating the images for as long as is technologically convenient.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-14 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-13 17:14 [Qemu-devel] using "qemu-img convert -O qcow2" to convert qcow v1 to v2 creates a qcow v3 file? Peter Maydell
2017-11-13 17:29 ` Peter Maydell
2017-11-13 17:58   ` Eric Blake
2017-11-13 18:08     ` Eric Blake
2017-11-14 13:32       ` Max Reitz
2017-11-14 18:45         ` Thomas Huth
2017-11-14 18:46           ` Max Reitz
2017-11-14 20:30             ` John Snow [this message]
2017-11-14 20:35               ` Max Reitz
2017-11-14 20:38                 ` John Snow
2017-11-14 20:44                   ` Max Reitz
2017-11-13 17:55 ` Eric Blake

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