Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/2] qga: Add 'mountpoints' argument to guest-fsfreeze-freeze command

[Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Quoting Eric Blake (2014-06-03 16:38:35)
> On 06/03/2014 03:21 PM, Michael Roth wrote:
> > Quoting Tomoki Sekiyama (2014-05-22 08:56:53)
> >> When an array of mount point paths is specified as 'mountpoints' argument
> >> of guest-fsfreeze-freeze, qemu-ga with this patch will only freeze the file
> >> systems mounted on specified paths in Linux.
> >> This would be useful when the host wants to create partial disk snapshots.
> > 
> > Since this isn't really applicable for win32, and it's hard to discover
> > optional params via guest-info without some extensive changes to how we handle
> > capabilities negotiation, I think it makes more sense to introduce a new
> > command for this, something like guest-fsfreeze-freeze-filesystems, which we
> > can easily discover and properly mark as unsupported on win32.
> 
> Bikeshedding on the proposed name: given that 'fs' is an abbreviation of
> 'filesystem', "fsfreeze-freeze-filesystems" sounds rather redundant.  I
> would suggest guest-fsfreeze-list as a shorter name that conveys the
> intent, without quite as much repetition.

Somewhat agree, though I think we should retain the guest-<command_group>-<verb>
structure and at least go with guest-fsfreeze-freeze-list.

I do think that is easy to confuse with 'get me a list of frozen mounts', but
probably nothing a little documentation shouldn't clarify. I'll throw
guest-fsfreeze-freeze-mountpoints out there, but don't have a strong preference
either way.

> 
> > 
> > Other than that looks good.
> > 
> 
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