From: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
To: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>, qemu-block@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 16/25] block: Add 'base-directory' BDS option
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 17:07:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b28222f7-e360-a31b-dc24-798e2db7d089@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w51shdwwxpn.fsf@maestria.local.igalia.com>
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On 2017-11-02 15:40, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Fri 29 Sep 2017 06:53:38 PM CEST, Max Reitz wrote:
>> Using this option, one can directly override what bdrv_dirname() will
>> return. This is useful if one uses e.g. qcow2 on top of quorum (with
>> only protocol BDSs under the quorum BDS) and wants to be able to use
>> relative backing filenames.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
>
> Who would be using this option in practice? I understand that management
> tools should be using always absolute filenames, and this API doesn't
> seem so convenient for humans.
Hmmm. I seem to recall Eric liked it a couple of years ago when he was
still more on the libvirt side of things. :-)
Max
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-29 16:53 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/25] block: Fix some filename generation issues Max Reitz
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 01/25] block/mirror: Small absolute-paths simplification Max Reitz
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 02/25] block: Use children list in bdrv_refresh_filename Max Reitz
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 03/25] block: Add BDS.backing_overridden Max Reitz
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 04/25] block: Respect backing bs in bdrv_refresh_filename Max Reitz
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 05/25] block: Make path_combine() return the path Max Reitz
2017-10-26 12:00 ` Alberto Garcia
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 06/25] block: bdrv_get_full_backing_filename_from_...'s ret. val Max Reitz
2017-10-26 13:23 ` Alberto Garcia
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 07/25] block: bdrv_get_full_backing_filename's " Max Reitz
2017-10-26 13:52 ` Alberto Garcia
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 08/25] block: Add bdrv_make_absolute_filename() Max Reitz
2017-10-30 14:25 ` Alberto Garcia
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 09/25] block: Fix bdrv_find_backing_image() Max Reitz
2017-10-30 14:47 ` Alberto Garcia
2017-11-02 15:45 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-02 15:59 ` Max Reitz
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 10/25] block: Add bdrv_dirname() Max Reitz
2017-10-31 11:05 ` Alberto Garcia
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 11/25] blkverify: Make bdrv_dirname() return NULL Max Reitz
2017-10-31 11:45 ` Alberto Garcia
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 12/25] quorum: " Max Reitz
2017-10-31 12:09 ` Alberto Garcia
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 13/25] block/nbd: " Max Reitz
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 14/25] block/nfs: Implement bdrv_dirname() Max Reitz
2017-10-31 12:29 ` Alberto Garcia
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 15/25] block: Use bdrv_dirname() for relative filenames Max Reitz
2017-10-31 13:52 ` Alberto Garcia
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 16/25] block: Add 'base-directory' BDS option Max Reitz
2017-11-02 14:40 ` Alberto Garcia
2017-11-02 16:07 ` Max Reitz [this message]
2017-11-02 22:06 ` Eric Blake
2017-11-07 12:07 ` Alberto Garcia
2017-11-08 17:09 ` Kevin Wolf
2017-11-08 18:54 ` Max Reitz
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 17/25] iotests: Add quorum case to test 110 Max Reitz
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 18/25] block: Add sgfnt_runtime_opts to BlockDriver Max Reitz
2017-11-02 16:11 ` Alberto Garcia
2017-11-02 16:18 ` Max Reitz
2017-11-08 13:01 ` Alberto Garcia
2017-11-08 17:14 ` Kevin Wolf
2017-11-08 18:52 ` Max Reitz
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 19/25] block: Add BlockDriver.bdrv_gather_child_options Max Reitz
2017-11-08 13:29 ` Alberto Garcia
2017-11-08 17:18 ` Kevin Wolf
2017-11-08 18:52 ` Max Reitz
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 20/25] block: Generically refresh runtime options Max Reitz
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 21/25] block: Purify .bdrv_refresh_filename() Max Reitz
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 22/25] block: Do not copy exact_filename from format file Max Reitz
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 23/25] block: Fix FIXME from "Add BDS.backing_overridden" Max Reitz
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 24/25] block/curl: Implement bdrv_refresh_filename() Max Reitz
2017-09-29 16:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 25/25] block/null: Generate filename even with latency-ns Max Reitz
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