Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv6 0/6] block: add native support for NFS

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:21:52AM +0100, Peter Lieven wrote:
> This adds v6 of the NFS protocol driver + qemu-iotest adjustments.
> 
> v5->v6:
>  - use internal qemu function to parse the NFS url [Kevin]
>  - zero pad short reads [Kevin, Paolo]
>  - added qemu-iotests patches for basic nfs protocol support
> 
> v4->v5:
>  - disussed with Ronnie and decided to move URL + Paramter parsing to LibNFS.
>    This allows for URL parameter processing directly in LibNFS without altering
>    the qemu NFS block driver. This bumps the version requirement for LibNFS
>    to 1.9.0 though.
>  - added a pointer to the LibNFS readme where additional information about
>    ROOT privilidge requirements can be found as this raised a few concerns.
>  - removed a trailing dot in an error statement [Fam].
> 
> v3->v4:
>  - finally added full implementation of bdrv_get_allocated_file_size [Stefan]
>  - removed trailing \n from error statements [Stefan]
> 
> v2->v3:
>  - rebased the stefanha/block
>  - use pkg_config to check for libnfs (ignoring cflags which are broken in 1.8.0) [Stefan]
>  - fixed NFSClient declaration [Stefan]
>  - renamed Task variables to task [Stefan]
>  - renamed NFSTask to NFSRPC [Ronnie]
>  - do not update bs->total_sectors in nfs_co_writev [Stefan]
>  - return -ENOMEM on all async call failures [Stefan,Ronnie]
>  - fully implement ftruncate
>  - use util/uri.c for URL parsing [Stefan]
>  - reworked nfs_file_open_common to nfs_client_open which works on NFSClient [Stefan]
>  - added a comment ot the connect message that libnfs support NFSv3 only at the moment.
>  - DID NOT add full implementation of bdrv_get_allocated_file_size because
>    we are not in a coroutine context and I cannot do an async call here.
>    I could do a sync call if there would be a guarantee that no requests
>    are in flight. [Stefan]
> 
> v1->v2:
>  - fixed block/Makefile.objs [Ronnie]
>  - do not always register a read handler [Ronnie]
>  - add support for reading beyond EOF [Fam]
>  - fixed struct and paramter naming [Fam]
>  - fixed overlong lines and whitespace errors [Fam]
>  - return return status from libnfs whereever possible [Fam]
>  - added comment why we set allocated_file_size to -ENOTSUP after write [Fam]
>  - avoid segfault when parsing filname [Fam]
>  - remove unused close_bh from NFSClient [Fam]
>  - avoid dividing and mutliplying total_size by BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE in nfs_file_create [Fam] 
> 
> Peter Lieven (6):
>   block: add native support for NFS
>   qemu-iotests: change _supported_proto to file for various tests
>   qemu-iotests: enable support for NFS protocol
>   qemu-iotests: enable test 016 and 025 to work with NFS protocol
>   qemu-iotests: fix expected output of test 067
>   qemu-iotests: blacklist test 020 for NFS protocol
> 
>  MAINTAINERS                  |    5 +
>  block/Makefile.objs          |    1 +
>  block/nfs.c                  |  444 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  configure                    |   26 +++
>  qapi-schema.json             |    1 +
>  tests/qemu-iotests/013       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/014       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/016       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/018       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/019       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/020       |    7 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/023       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/024       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/025       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/026       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/028       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/031       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/034       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/036       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/037       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/038       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/039       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/043       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/046       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/052       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/054       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/059       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/060       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/061       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/063       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/067.out   |    8 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/069       |    2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/common    |   22 ++-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc |    3 +
>  34 files changed, 534 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 block/nfs.c

Any update on the qemu-iotests changes discussed in this thread?  The
actual NFS patch looks fine.

Stefan