Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] vhd-util create: add -C|nocow option

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 14:59 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] vhd-util create: add -C|nocow 
> option"):
> > On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 14:41 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > This may seem like a daft question, but why do we even have a vhd
> > > utility in our tree ?  Is there not some vhd tools package that this
> > > should be in ?
> > 
> > vhd was originally a microsoft thing and I think most OSS projects
> > adopted it in an ad-hoc and independent manner.
> > 
> > Most virt solutions have their own tools (e.g. qemu-img and virtualbox's
> > thing) for these things.
> > 
> > I agree that it seems silly though I'm not proposing to start a separate
> > project ;-)
> 
> On that basis we should probably take this patch...

I'm not sure it follows that because we have vhd-utils in tree we should
also start incorporating btrfs-utils.

Ian.


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