-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/2012 06:17 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote: > As I recall Lukas disclaimed a guarantee that the code would work on > qcow2 images that weren't generated by e2image. (In particular, it > definitely doesn't support compressed or encrypted qcow2 images.) > > So we need to make sure we add the appropriate disclaimers that this > might not work on qcow2 images generated by tools other than e2image. Would you care to craft such a disclaimer? > It will only work for raw images. The QCOW2 format uses an entirely > different code path, since we don't have an QCOW2 io_manager > abstraction. That was my original hope, but that's not how our qcow2 > support was implemented, so it won't work, and we should probably give > a reasonable warning if someone tries to use the -a flag with anything > other than a raw file system image for e2image's input. It seemed to work fine with qcow2 when I tested it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPPZyzAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75U2UIAMgAF/+pIFQCiXCQGMqt+6rR 4k2P2Q/NfRIIf5lSuNaMCuV88ZuUU002ywEN6z9hPfxXDIagDAzOArtVI2nAhwfz Z4BF7uJ+7eJDCDQycNDb4JmAQDRs2sBuu3Y0dHKWthyd39KYMR7B0ARwCSeYLczB eigCiQwTVechP2jacWwNnv53BP2xbw/BYy5IHfQViSKijxGNdheQkYqOTIO5eGGB NdPx5A6yogLOHyB3K3E9cqEnAjXSlelLH7sRCPAmHmQiJVscAiNZ6JvyP/oV0uek HlmvP0LyZwzMvy8XlgoybHNRLysw+VEVVuLIrAzZJHiW7aWH3WPtqrPEQp6XoJY= =cmZg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
