From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37009) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAI2V-0000gO-72 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:08:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAI2P-0006ML-Cf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:08:19 -0400 References: <20170929165347.29658-1-mreitz@redhat.com> <20170929165347.29658-17-mreitz@redhat.com> From: Max Reitz Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 17:07:50 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="JH5MwQaIwrIMmHpIDvmwM1jd5D1MKqsLc" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 16/25] block: Add 'base-directory' BDS option List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alberto Garcia , qemu-block@nongnu.org Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Kevin Wolf , Eric Blake , John Snow This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --JH5MwQaIwrIMmHpIDvmwM1jd5D1MKqsLc From: Max Reitz To: Alberto Garcia , qemu-block@nongnu.org Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Kevin Wolf , Eric Blake , John Snow Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 16/25] block: Add 'base-directory' BDS option References: <20170929165347.29658-1-mreitz@redhat.com> <20170929165347.29658-17-mreitz@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 >=20 > Who would be using this option in practice? I understand that managemen= t > 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 --JH5MwQaIwrIMmHpIDvmwM1jd5D1MKqsLc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQFGBAEBCAAwFiEEkb62CjDbPohX0Rgp9AfbAGHVz0AFAln7QtYSHG1yZWl0ekBy ZWRoYXQuY29tAAoJEPQH2wBh1c9A3g0H/imHVIbe5U2R7+SscvXEiRutNFS2SMnd IVNTtPBQWvex32X15vppW/GBNZoc5JoK7PRdMXUSdfbJYObRO4B4hxpRKipMsy1a gLW/2jk4+Uzp/zEK+egwG1rr4CFXc/b1ChPvJOF7liHYFq/oZ+vyY218U02UJGb8 rupWe+g9KBi41yirtT6PxIrxzAPhRP+3Ns8C0eK9fyBEVTT7Sm22bvXR+jVvT2Kb 8+JGHMCUZVwQ7ZB98VqIL8cvbNDr6Km0rIZzc6E4neWDEtXruKIYLHOcRbgTwyeA BQFjRt3AI07PHcwHOeT1hRG7YvkLe1XSk84Hq579qQNY4zQiuj7i56A= =rJN0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --JH5MwQaIwrIMmHpIDvmwM1jd5D1MKqsLc--