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From: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/3] GlusterFS support in QEMU
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Amar Tumballi <amarts@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Vijay Bellur <vbellur@redhat.com>

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 04:36:04PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Bharata B Rao
> <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 4. Creating VM image
> >
> > # qemu-img create -f gluster gluster:c-qemu.vol:/F16 5G
> 
> Do you really need "-f gluster"?

I realized that we don't. I was picked it up from the semantics of rbd.

> The format should be "raw" (default)
> and the protocol should be "gluster".  Specifying "gluster:..." as the
> filename takes care of hooking up the GlusterFS protocol.

You are right. The current patches work w/o explicit specification of gluster
as format, but I will update the documentation in the next version.

Regards,
Bharata.