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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img needs "-O host_device" describing
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Jamie Lokier |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img needs "-O host_device" describing |
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Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:42:52 +0100 |
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Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 01.10.2009 12:48, schrieb Adrian Bridgett:
> > I do wonder if -O raw should warn when
> > run against output devices which aren't regular files though.
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> I'd consider an error message pointing to host_device helpful (error
> meaning that qemu-img aborts, not just a warning). So if you like to add
> the check, go ahead.
Why not simply provide the host_device behaviour when -O raw is used
on a device? Is there anything to be gained from not doing so?
-- Jamie