From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34226) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XMY7D-0006xj-Ms for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 03:58:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XMY78-000062-8D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 03:57:59 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60087) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XMY78-00005y-0A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 03:57:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:57:47 +0100 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Message-ID: <20140827075747.GF1302@redhat.com> References: <1409086088-20910-1-git-send-email-rjones@redhat.com> <1409086088-20910-2-git-send-email-rjones@redhat.com> <20140827023845.GA2977@T430.nay.redhat.com> <53FD491A.9060303@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53FD491A.9060303@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] curl: Add override_accept_ranges flag to force sending range requests. List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Eric Blake Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, danielhb@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Fam Zheng , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 08:57:30PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 08/26/2014 08:38 PM, Fam Zheng wrote: > > On Tue, 08/26 21:48, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> Some servers (notably VMware ESX) accept range requests, but don't > >> send back the Accept-Ranges: bytes header in their initial response. > >> > >> For these servers you can set override_accept_ranges to 'on' which > >> forces this block driver to send range requests anyway. > > Is this a case where we should be naming with dashes instead of > underscores, as in override-accept-ranges? Yes. I'm not particularly happy with the long name either, but couldn't think of anything shorter. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/