Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] raw-posix.c: remove raw device access for cdrom

[Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>]

On 02/07/2015 16:03, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 02/07/2015 15:58, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>> Since any /dev entry can be treated as a raw disk image, it is worth
>> noting which devices can be accessed when and how. /dev/rdisk nodes are
>> character-special devices, but are "raw" in the BSD sense and force
>> block-aligned I/O. They are closer to the physical disk than the buffer
>> cache. /dev/disk nodes, on the other hand, are buffered block-special
>> devices and are used primarily by the kernel's filesystem code.
> 
> So the right thing to do would not be just to set need_alignment, but to
> probe it like we do on Linux for BDRV_O_NO_CACHE.
> 
> I'm okay with doing the simple thing, but it needs a comment for non-BSDers.

So, what we have to do, in our case, for MacOS X cdrom, is something like:

... GetBSDPath ...
...
    if (flags & BDRV_O_NOCACHE) {
        strcat(bsdPath, "r");
    }
...

?

Laurent