Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/2] GlusterFS support in QEMU - v3

[Bharata B Rao]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 01:56:29PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Bharata B Rao
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:12:53AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Bharata B Rao
> >> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> > Apart from cleanups, the major change in this version is to expose all
> >> > the gluster configuration options to QEMU user. With this, the gluster
> >> > specification looks like this:
> >> >
> >> > -drive file=gluster:server:[port]:[transport]:volname:image
> >> >
> >> >     - Here 'gluster' is the protocol.
> >> >     - 'server' specifies the server where the volume file specification 
> >> > for
> >> >       the given volume resides.
> >>
> >> Works fine for hostnames and IPv4 addresses.  It seems like the ':'
> >> separator may prevent users from giving IPv6 addresses unless there is
> >> a way to escape ':'.
> >
> > I feel its better to go the URI way than to escape ':'. I will have this
> > specification in v4:
> >
> > gluster://server:[port]/volname/path/to/image?transport=socket
> >
> > As per http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.2.2, ipv6 addresses
> > are specified within square brackets in a URI which makes it easy to parse
> > the port after :
> 
> Okay.  Did you check that volnames cannot contain '/'?

Yes I have verifed that.

Regards,
Bharata.