From: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: wei.liu2@citrix.com, Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>,
ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, ian.campbell@citrix.com
Subject: [PATCH V2 3/3] docs: add more info about target= in disk config
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:20:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1455729659-7885-4-git-send-email-jfehlig@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455729659-7885-1-git-send-email-jfehlig@suse.com>
target= in disk config can be used to convey arbitrary
configuration information to backends. Add a bit more info
to xl-disk-configuration.txt to clarify this, including some
simple nbd and rbd qdisk configurations.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
---
docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt b/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt
index 29f6ddb..79f1e4a 100644
--- a/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt
+++ b/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt
@@ -75,7 +75,15 @@ Special syntax:
the target was already specified as a positional parameter. This
is the only way to specify a target string containing metacharacters
such as commas and (in some cases) colons, which would otherwise be
- misinterpreted.
+ misinterpreted. Meta-information in a target string can be used to
+ specify configuration information for a qdisk block backend. For
+ example the nbd and rbd qdisk block backends can be configured with
+
+ target=nbd:192.168.0.1:5555
+ target=rbd:pool/image:mon_host=192.186.0.1\\:6789
+
+ Note that '\' is used to escape metacharacters. Literal backslashes
+ in target= strings must use '\\'.
Future parameter and flag names will start with an ascii letter and
contain only ascii alphanumerics, hyphens and underscores, and will
--
2.1.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-17 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-17 17:20 [PATCH V2 0/3] libxl and docs: small improvements in qdisk support Jim Fehlig
2016-02-17 17:20 ` [PATCH V2 1/3] libxlu_cfg: reject unknown characters following '\' Jim Fehlig
2016-02-17 17:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-02-17 17:20 ` [PATCH V2 2/3] docs: fix typo in xl-disk-configuration.txt Jim Fehlig
2016-02-17 17:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-02-17 17:20 ` Jim Fehlig [this message]
2016-02-18 10:24 ` [PATCH V2 3/3] docs: add more info about target= in disk config Ian Campbell
2016-02-19 17:25 ` Ian Jackson
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