X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=contrib%2Fvisualize-alignment%2FREADME;h=e68a9023a76c1c8113e09ce4464dcf6ac7b3d9ec;hb=1e35941f62bddafd6b88270b22b3afe4a5d37baa;hp=0009dcf84e8edef1690aef3da96ad1f767f7b2f5;hpb=241c34fb7acff24713331f015429eb52055553a6;p=libguestfs.git diff --git a/contrib/visualize-alignment/README b/contrib/visualize-alignment/README index 0009dcf..e68a902 100644 --- a/contrib/visualize-alignment/README +++ b/contrib/visualize-alignment/README @@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ such as a single write, or groups of operations. You can examine the traces by hand (as text files) or turn them into graphical visualizations. +IMPORTANT NOTE: This is not upstream (in qemu) nor integrated into +libguestfs. We should probably be using the 'blktrace' command +instead, or if that is not suitable, get a more reliable and useful +trace mechanism added to qemu (the current patch is not suitable for +upstreaming). + The *.qtr files are qemu trace files, produced using the unofficial qemu patch in the current directory. @@ -48,7 +54,7 @@ qemu patch in the current directory. pvcreate /dev/vda : \ vgcreate VG /dev/vda : \ lvcreate LV VG 32 : \ - mkfs-b ext4 4096 /dev/VG/LV + mkfs-opts ext4 /dev/VG/LV blocksize:4096 Some points to note: * an ext4 filesystem, so it has a journal and extents