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[PATCH] docs: qsd: Explain --export nbd,name=... default
From: |
Kevin Wolf |
Subject: |
[PATCH] docs: qsd: Explain --export nbd,name=... default |
Date: |
Fri, 5 Mar 2021 10:48:56 +0100 |
The 'name' option for NBD exports is optional. Add a note that the
default for the option is the node name (people could otherwise expect
that it's the empty string like for qemu-nbd).
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
---
docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst
b/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst
index fe3042d609..086493ebb3 100644
--- a/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst
+++ b/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst
@@ -80,8 +80,9 @@ Standard options:
requests for modifying data (the default is off).
The ``nbd`` export type requires ``--nbd-server`` (see below). ``name`` is
- the NBD export name. ``bitmap`` is the name of a dirty bitmap reachable from
- the block node, so the NBD client can use NBD_OPT_SET_META_CONTEXT with the
+ the NBD export name (if not specified, it defaults to the given
+ ``node-name``). ``bitmap`` is the name of a dirty bitmap reachable from the
+ block node, so the NBD client can use NBD_OPT_SET_META_CONTEXT with the
metadata context name "qemu:dirty-bitmap:BITMAP" to inspect the bitmap.
The ``vhost-user-blk`` export type takes a vhost-user socket address on which
--
2.29.2
- [PATCH] docs: qsd: Explain --export nbd,name=... default,
Kevin Wolf <=