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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6] Add compare subcommand for qemu-img


From: Stefan Hajnoczi
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6] Add compare subcommand for qemu-img
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:16:04 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 07:24:04AM -0500, Miroslav Rezanina wrote:
> This is second version of  patch adding compare subcommand that
> compares two images. Compare has following criteria:
>  - only data part is compared
>  - unallocated sectors are not read
>  - in case of different image size, exceeding part of bigger disk has
>  to be zeroed/unallocated to compare rest
>  - qemu-img returns:
>     - 0 if images are identical
>     - 1 if images differ
>     - 2 on error
> 
> v6:
>  - added handling -?, -h options for compare subcommand
> 
> v5 (only minor changes):
>  - removed redundant comment
>  - removed dead code (goto after help())
>  - set final total_sectors on first assignment
> 
> v4:
>  - Fixed various typos
>  - Added functions for empty sector check and sector-to-bytes offset
>  conversion
>  - Fixed command-line parameters processing
> 
> v3:
>  - options -f/-F are orthogonal
>  - documentation updated to new syntax and behavior
>  - used byte offset instead of sector number for output
>  
> v2:
>  - changed option for second image format to -F
>  - changed handling of -f and -F [1]
>  - added strict mode (-s)
>  - added quiet mode (-q)
>  - improved output messages [2]
>  - rename variables for larger image handling
>  - added man page content
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Rezanina <address@hidden>

Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>



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