On 11/14/2017 01:46 PM, Max Reitz wrote: > On 2017-11-14 19:45, Thomas Huth wrote: >> On 14.11.2017 14:32, Max Reitz wrote: >> [...] >>> Well, do you want to document it? I'd rather deprecate it altogether. >> >> Maybe a first step could be to change qemu-img so that it refuses to >> create new qcow1 images (but still can convert them into other formats). >> So basically make qcow1 read-only? > > Yep, and the actual first step to that is to make it issue a deprecation > warning when creating qcow v1 images (which is what I proposed). :-) > > Max >
Deprecation warning is good. In future versions you can shimmy it behind a --no-really-I-want-this-old-format option, I think we ought to support creating the images for as long as is technologically convenient.
