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From: | Eric Blake |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] qemu-img: Add --target-is-zero to convert |
Date: | Wed, 5 Feb 2020 19:52:49 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 |
On 2/4/20 8:21 AM, David Edmondson wrote:
On Tuesday, 2020-02-04 at 07:31:52 -06, Eric Blake wrote:On 2/4/20 3:52 AM, David Edmondson wrote:In many cases the target of a convert operation is a newly provisioned target that the user knows is blank (filled with zeroes). In this'filled with zeroes' is accurate for a preallocated image, but reads awkwardly for a sparse image; it might be better to state 'reads as zero'.
+++ b/docs/interop/qemu-img.rst @@ -214,6 +214,12 @@ Parameters to convert subcommand: will still be printed. Areas that cannot be read from the source will be treated as containing only zeroes.+.. option:: --target-is-zero+ + Assume that the destination is filled with zeros. This parameter isSpelled 'zeroes' just three lines earlier.My understanding is that "zeros" is the correct plural of "zero" (and that "zeroes" relates to the use of "zero" as a verb), but perhaps that's another British English thing? I don't care enough to fight about it.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3824/what-is-the-plural-form-of-zero says both zeros and zeroes are fine for the noun (with UK leaning more to zeros), but only zeroes for the verb; but also concedes that zeroes is gaining in popularity over time. I likewise won't bother tweaking your patch (I see in v4 that you left it unchanged).
-- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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