Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit v3 3/3] Add partitioning plugin.
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?
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