[Pkg-libvirt-commits] [libguestfs] 25/266: sparsify: Relax requirement that output device cannot be block device (RHBZ#1122557).

[Hilko Bengen]

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commit 12b54ef5e3aecd55d228a96dfb0a9ab5c8acdf4a
Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Jul 23 15:01:44 2014 +0100

    sparsify: Relax requirement that output device cannot be block device (RHBZ#1122557).
    
    To fix RHBZ#1056290, I prevented virt-sparsify being used if the
    output device is a block device.
    
    I have now retested this scenario and it does work (in both copying
    and in-place mode), and does not delete the output device, and
    therefore we can relax this restriction so only char devices are
    banned.
    
    This is useful for oVirt which uses a qcow2 formatted block device to
    store virtual machines.
---
 sparsify/cmdline.ml | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sparsify/cmdline.ml b/sparsify/cmdline.ml
index a99c851..b1fb83f 100644
--- a/sparsify/cmdline.ml
+++ b/sparsify/cmdline.ml
@@ -167,11 +167,7 @@ read the man page virt-sparsify(1).
         else
           Sys.getcwd () // indisk in
 
-      (* Check the output is not a block or char special (RHBZ#1056290). *)
-      if is_block_device outdisk then
-        error (f_"output '%s' cannot be a block device, it must be a regular file")
-          outdisk;
-
+      (* Check the output is not a char special (RHBZ#1056290). *)
       if is_char_device outdisk then
         error (f_"output '%s' cannot be a character device, it must be a regular file")
           outdisk;

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