Am 22.07.2014 um 22:58 hat Max Reitz geschrieben: > Currently, qemu-img does not allow setting the cache mode for source > images. However, it reads images generally only once, therefore a full > writeback cache unnecessarily clutters the host cache. In case the user > finds this undesirable, there has to be a way of disabling that cache. > This series first introduces such a way for check, compare, convert and > rebase and then (while at it) adds a cache mode switch to amend (which > was missing so far). > > Peter already tried to add a BDRV_O_SEQUENTIAL mode to qemu-img convert. > If we want to add such a mode (which in my opinion would be the logical > consequence of this series), we may want to make it just another cache > mode which can be selected by the user. > > v2: > - Patch 1: > - Remove superfluous space in qemu-img-cmds.hx [Eric] > - Reorder all getopt() optstrings which are touched by this patch > anyway according to the subsequent switch [Eric (implicitly)] > - Patch 2: > - Reorder img_amend()'s optstring [Eric]
Thanks, applied all to the block branch. Kevin
