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On 24/04/2015 04:16, Wen Congyang wrote:
>>> >> I think the primary shouldn't do any I/O after failover (and the
>>> >> secondary should close the NBD server) so it is probably okay to ignore
>>> >> the removal for now.  Inserting the filter dynamically is probably
>>> >> needed though.
>> > 
>> > Or maybe just enabling/disabling?
> Hmm, after failover, the secondary qemu should become primary qemu, but we don't
> know the nbd server's IP/port when we execute the secondary qemu. So we need
> to inserting nbd client dynamically after failover.

True, but secondary->primary switch is already not supported in v3.

Kevin/Stefan, is there a design document somewhere that covers at least
static filters?

Paolo