Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] block: add native support for NFS

[Orit Wasserman <owasserm@redhat.com>]

On 12/18/2013 01:03 AM, Peter Lieven wrote:
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>> Am 17.12.2013 um 18:32 schrieb "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>:
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>>> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:15:25AM +0100, Peter Lieven wrote:
>>> This patch adds native support for accessing images on NFS shares without
>>> the requirement to actually mount the entire NFS share on the host.
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>>> NFS Images can simply be specified by an url of the form:
>>> nfs://<host>/<export>/<filename>
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>>> For example:
>>> qemu-img create -f qcow2 nfs://10.0.0.1/qemu-images/test.qcow2
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>> Does it support other config tunables, eg specifying which
>> NFS version to use 2/3/4 ? If so will they be available as
>> URI parameters in the obvious manner ?
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> currently only v3 is supported by libnfs. what other tunables would you like to see?
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For live migration we need the sync option (async ignores O_SYNC and O_DIRECT sadly),
will it be supported? or will it be the default?

Orit

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