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From: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch v3 15/18] support blktap remus in xl
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:19:12 +0800
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At 09/08/2014 07:39 PM, Ian Campbell Write:
> NB, this series was presented as "Some bugfix patches". I think we are
> way out of that territory and into feature land.
> 
> On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 17:10 +0800, Wen Congyang wrote:
>> With this patch, we can use blktap remus like this:
>> disk = [ 'format=remus,devtype=disk,access=w,vdev=hda,backendtype=tap,target=192.168.3.1:9000|aio:filename' ]
> 
> I don't think it makes sense to wedge remus in as a kind of pseudo
> format as you've done here, but I'm not really sure what the actual
> right answer is. I suspect some sort of remus specific field or cfg file
> option. Perhaps ",remus=192.168...,target=filename".

What about this: "format=raw,backendtype=tap,filter=remus, filter-params=192.168...,target=filename"?

Thanks
Wen Congyang

> 
> Ian J has been following the Remus stuff more closely so perhaps he has
> a better idea. (Note: he's away all of this week)
> 
> Ian.
> 
> .
>