[PATCH 2/3] utils: Deprecate hex-with-suffix sizes
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Fri Feb 5 10:31:38 UTC 2021
On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 01:25:18PM +0300, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> 04.02.2021 22:07, Eric Blake wrote:
> >Supporting '0x20M' looks odd, particularly since we have an 'E' suffix
>
> What about also deprecating 'E' suffix? (just my problem of reviewing previous patch)
Ha! What if people want to specify exabytes?! That actually works at
the moment:
$ nbdkit memory 7E --run 'qemu-io -f raw -c "r -v 1E 512" "$uri"'
Rich.
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