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...t-truncate-filter.1: nbdkit-truncate-filter.pod + $(PODWRAPPER) --section=1 --man $@ \ + --html $(top_builddir)/html/$@.html \ + $< + +endif HAVE_POD diff --git a/filters/truncate/nbdkit-truncate-filter.pod b/filters/truncate/nbdkit-truncate-filter.pod new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d52a440 --- /dev/null +++ b/filters/truncate/nbdkit-truncate-filter.pod @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +=head1 NAME + +nbdkit-truncate-filter - change the size of plugins + +=head1 SYNOPSIS + + nbdkit --filter=truncate plugin [truncate=SIZE] + [round-up=N] [round-down=N] + +=head1 DESCRIP...

This patch series proposes two new filters. * truncate: This can truncate, extend, round up or round down the size of a plugin/device. A typical usage is to fix the qemu problem that it can only handle devices which are a multiple of 512-bytes: nbdkit --filter=truncate random size=500 round-up=512 This will serve a virtual device with size 512 bytes. Reading from the last 12 bytes will