[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [PATCH] Document qemu-img options data_file and data_file_raw
From: |
Eric Blake |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Document qemu-img options data_file and data_file_raw |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Mar 2021 11:33:44 -0600 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.0 |
On 3/1/21 11:28 AM, Connor Kuehl wrote:
> The contents of this patch were initially developed and posted by Han
> Han[1], however, it appears the original patch was not applied. Since
> then, the relevant documentation has been moved and adapted to a new
> format.
>
> I've taken most of the original wording and tweaked it according to
> some of the feedback from the original patch submission. I've also
> adapted it to restructured text, which is the format the documentation
> currently uses.
>
> [1] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2019-10/msg01253.html
>
> Reported-by: Han Han <hhan@redhat.com>
> Co-developed-by: Han Han <hhan@redhat.com>
Unusual tag, and his original email has Signed-off-by. It's easier to
just reuse S-o-b here.
> Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1763105
> Signed-off-by: Connor Kuehl <ckuehl@redhat.com>
> ---
> docs/tools/qemu-img.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/tools/qemu-img.rst b/docs/tools/qemu-img.rst
> index b615aa8419..5cc585dc27 100644
> --- a/docs/tools/qemu-img.rst
> +++ b/docs/tools/qemu-img.rst
> @@ -866,6 +866,18 @@ Supported image file formats:
> issue ``lsattr filename`` to check if the NOCOW flag is set or not
> (Capital 'C' is NOCOW flag).
>
> + ``data_file``
> + Pathname that refers to a file that will store all guest data. If
> + this option is used, the qcow2 file will only contain the image's
> + metadata.
> +
> + ``data_file_raw``
> + If this option is set to ``on``, QEMU will always keep the external
> + data file consistent as a standalone read-only raw image. The default
> + value is ``off``.
> +
> + This option can only be enabled if ``data_file`` is set.
> +
> ``Other``
>
> QEMU also supports various other image file formats for
>
Otherwise,
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
- [PATCH] Document qemu-img options data_file and data_file_raw, Connor Kuehl, 2021/03/01
- Re: [PATCH] Document qemu-img options data_file and data_file_raw,
Eric Blake <=
- Re: [PATCH] Document qemu-img options data_file and data_file_raw, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2021/03/02
- Re: [PATCH] Document qemu-img options data_file and data_file_raw, Connor Kuehl, 2021/03/08
- Re: [PATCH] Document qemu-img options data_file and data_file_raw, Connor Kuehl, 2021/03/15
- Re: [PATCH] Document qemu-img options data_file and data_file_raw, John Snow, 2021/03/23
- Re: [PATCH] Document qemu-img options data_file and data_file_raw, Max Reitz, 2021/03/26