Re: [PATCH] qemu-nbd: Removed deprecated --partition option

The option was deprecated in 4.0.0 (commit 0ae2d546); it's now been long enough with no complaints to follow through with that process. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com&gt; --- qemu-deprecated.texi | 49 ++++++---------- qemu-nbd.c | 133 +------------------------------------------ qemu-nbd.texi | 13 ++--- 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 171 deletions(-) diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi index 8471eef9c22d..1b4c638db8e0 100644 --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi @@ -304,37 +304,6 @@ The above, converted to the current supported format: @section Related binaries -@subsection qemu-nbd --partition (since 4.0.0) - -The ``qemu-nbd --partition $digit'' code (also spelled @option{-P}) -can only handle MBR partitions, and has never correctly handled -logical partitions beyond partition 5. If you know the offset and -length of the partition (perhaps by using @code{sfdisk} within the -guest), you can achieve the effect of exporting just that subset of -the disk by use of the @option{--image-opts} option with a raw -blockdev using the @code{offset} and @code{size} parameters layered on -top of any other existing blockdev. For example, if partition 1 is -100MiB long starting at 1MiB, the old command: - -@code{qemu-nbd -t -P 1 -f qcow2 file.qcow2} - -can be rewritten as: - -@code{qemu-nbd -t --image-opts driver=raw,offset=1M,size=100M,file.driver=qcow2,file.backing.driver=file,file.backing.filename=file.qcow2} - -Alternatively, the @code{nbdkit} project provides a more powerful -partition filter on top of its nbd plugin, which can be used to select -an arbitrary MBR or GPT partition on top of any other full-image NBD -export. Using this to rewrite the above example results in: - -@code{qemu-nbd -t -k /tmp/sock -f qcow2 file.qcow2 &} -@code{nbdkit -f --filter=partition nbd socket=/tmp/sock partition=1} - -Note that if you are exposing the export via /dev/nbd0, it is easier -to just export the entire image and then mount only /dev/nbd0p1 than -it is to reinvoke @command{qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0} limited to just a -subset of the image. - @subsection qemu-img convert -n -o (since 4.2.0) All options specified in @option{-o} are image creation options, so @@ -383,3 +352,21 @@ trouble after a recent upgrade. The "autoload" parameter has been ignored since 2.12.0. All bitmaps are automatically loaded from qcow2 images. + +@section Related binaries + +@subsection qemu-nbd --partition (removed in 5.0.0) + +The ``qemu-nbd --partition $digit'' code (also spelled @option{-P}) +could only handle MBR partitions, and never correctly handled logical +partitions beyond partition 5. Exporting a partition can still be +done by utilizing the @option{--image-opts} option with a raw blockdev +using the @code{offset} and @code{size} parameters layered on top of +any other existing blockdev. For example, if partition 1 is 100MiB +long starting at 1MiB, the old command: + +@code{qemu-nbd -t -P 1 -f qcow2 file.qcow2} + +can be rewritten as: + +@code{qemu-nbd -t --image-opts driver=raw,offset=1M,size=100M,file.driver=qcow2,file.backing.driver=file,file.backing.filename=file.qcow2}