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 <[email protected]> Co-developed-by: Han Han <[email protected]> Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1763105 Signed-off-by: Connor Kuehl <[email protected]> --- 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 -- 2.29.2
