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From: Wido den Hollander <wido@42on.com>
To: "ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RBD image format in rbd_stat()
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 13:55:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5190D4C4.6060400@42on.com> (raw)

Hi,

While implementing the RADOS/RBD Java bindings for usage in CloudStack I 
stumbled upon the problem of finding out if a RBD image is format 1 or 
2, due to snapshotting and layering.

I found out that rbd_image_t doesn't contain a field "format", and you 
gave to use rbd_get_old_format() to find out if a image is format 1 or 2.

rbd_stat however also has a size parameter which isn't used right now 
when looking at the librbd code.

Couldn't a 'format' field be added to rbd_image_t and maintain backwards 
compatibility by actually looking at the size parameter? That wouldn't 
break any existing code.

-- 
Wido den Hollander
42on B.V.

Phone: +31 (0)20 700 9902
Skype: contact42on

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