linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 3/4 v4] e2image: Support for conversion QCOW2 image into raw

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Date:	Wed, 18 May 2011 12:18:23 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, sandeen@...hat.com, adilger@...ger.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4 v4] e2image: Support for conversion QCOW2 image
 into raw

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 02:20:47PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> This commit adds support for converting QCOW2 image created previously
> with e2image into raw image. The QCOW2 image is detected automatically,
> so there is not new option. Just use following command:
> 
>   e2image -r image.qcow image.raw
> 
> No that this tool is aimed to quickly convert qcow2 image created with
> e2image into raw image. In order to improve speed we are doing some
> assumption I believe might not be true for regular qcow2 images. So it
> was not tested with regular QCOW2 images and it might not work with
> them. The intention of this tool is only convert images previously
> created by e2image.
> 
> Note that there is nothing special with QCOW2 images created by e2images
> and it can be used with tools like qemu-img, or qemu-nbd without any
> problems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>

Applied to the e2fsprogs next branch.

						- Ted
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