[Libguestfs] [nbdkit PATCH 2/3] ext2: Deprecate ext2 plugin

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Wed Feb 12 02:19:01 UTC 2020


Plan to remove it in the next-but-one stable release.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>
---
 plugins/ext2/nbdkit-ext2-plugin.pod | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins/ext2/nbdkit-ext2-plugin.pod b/plugins/ext2/nbdkit-ext2-plugin.pod
index b8d6c21e..5691b6a2 100644
--- a/plugins/ext2/nbdkit-ext2-plugin.pod
+++ b/plugins/ext2/nbdkit-ext2-plugin.pod
@@ -7,6 +7,15 @@ ext4 filesystems

  nbdkit ext2 disk=fs.img file=/disks/disk.raw

+=head1 DEPRECATED
+
+B<The ext2 plugin is deprecated in S<nbdkit E<ge> 1.17.8> and will be
+removed in S<nbdkit 1.20>>.  It has been replaced with a filter with
+the same functionality, see L<nbdkit-ext2-filter(1)>.  You can use the
+filter like this:
+
+ nbdkit --filter=ext2 file fs.img ext2file=/disks/disk.raw
+
 =head1 DESCRIPTION

 C<nbdkit-ext2-plugin> is an nbdkit plugin which can read and
@@ -82,6 +91,7 @@ C<nbdkit-ext2-plugin> first appeared in nbdkit 1.4.

 L<nbdkit(1)>,
 L<nbdkit-plugin(3)>,
+L<nbdkit-ext2-filter(1)>,
 L<nbdkit-partition-filter(1)>,
 L<nbdkit-guestfs-plugin(1)>,
 L<http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/>,
@@ -93,4 +103,4 @@ Richard W.M. Jones

 =head1 COPYRIGHT

-Copyright (C) 2018 Red Hat Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Red Hat Inc.
-- 
2.24.1




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