Le Thursday 19 Sep 2013 à 10:57:50 (+0200), Kevin Wolf a écrit :
> Am 19.09.2013 um 10:26 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben:
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 05:05:27PM +0200, Benoît Canet wrote:
> > > Le Tuesday 17 Sep 2013 à 14:44:13 (+0200), Stefan Hajnoczi a écrit :
> > > > Hi Benoit,
> > > > Kevin and I had a chance to chat face-to-face and we discussed what
> > > > concrete changes are necessary to merge quorum (without solving all the
> > > > other block layers problems at once).
> > > >
> > > > I think quorum could be merged relatively quickly (and without massive
> > > > BlockFilter investments) by changing the following:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Defining children on the command-line
> > > >
> > > > Existing "filter" drivers use the protocol filename to embed their
> > > > children, for example the blkverify driver. This is a big hack because
> > > > we have no proper syntax or escaping for the embedded drive definitions
> > > > in the file= option.
> > > >
> > > > This was one of the main arguments against merging quorum. Now that
> > > > Kevin has implemented driver-specific open options (see
> > > > block/qcow2.c:qcow2_runtime_opts), it is possible for the quorum driver
> > > > to open children specific on the command-line:
> > > >
> > > > -drive if=none,file.driver=quorum,format=raw,\
> > > > file.children0.file=/nfs1/test.qcow2,\
> > > > file.children1.file=/nfs2/test.qcow2,\
> > > > file.children2.file=/nfs3/test.qcow2
>
> By the way, I think he concrete syntax might have to be a bit different
> so it can be mapped to QAPI for blockdev-add. I think we'll want to use
> a JSON list for the children; a mapping to QDict and to the command line
> is yet to be implemented I guess.
Hi,
Just to make sure I'll code the right thing; is the following correct ?
-drive if=none,file.driver=quorum,format=raw,\
file.children=[/nfs1/test.qcow2, /nfs2/test.qcow2, /nfs3/test.qcow2], \
file.vote_threshold=2
Best regards
Benoît
