On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 09:30:45AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > On 9/17/18 4:27 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >Create a partitioned virtual drive from a list of one or more files > >each containing single partitions. The plugin concatenates the files > >together and generates a virtual partition table so that NBD clients > >see a single partitioned disk. > > > >For example: > > > > nbdkit partitioning boot.img swap.img root.img > > > >creates a virtual disk with 3 partitions. > >--- > > >+++ b/plugins/partitioning/nbdkit-partitioning-plugin.pod > > >+If the underlying file is a multiple of 512 bytes then this is a > >+no-op: > >+ > >+ nbdkit --filter=partition partitioning file --partition=1 > > Filter options are not specified with --. I've pushed the obvious fix. > > Maybe they should, though. Is it worth teaching nbdkit that any > unrecognized option that resembles --key=value should first undergo > an attempted translation into 'key=value' passed on to the > filter/plugin .config, before declaring it as an unknown option?
I think that would prevent us from adding future long options. Thanks for the other fixes. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
