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Re: [Qemu-devel] BlockDriverState stack and BlockListeners
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] BlockDriverState stack and BlockListeners |
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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:39:41 +0100 |
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Am 21.02.2012 17:19, schrieb Markus Armbruster:
>>>> Oh, and just to open another can of worms: We should probably design in
>>>> the notion of media (which can be ejected etc.) and drives (which always
>>>> stay there). We don't have a clean separation today.
>>>
>>> The "closed BDS means no media" thing works, but it's odd.
>>
>> I'm more talking about data that belongs to the media, like geometry.
>> This came up recently with Hervé's floppy patches.
>
> Is geometry relevant to anything but floppies and really small disks
> being accessed via really old interfaces?
Not sure what it's actually used for, but even virtio-blk does have a
geometry.
But is it really only geometry? I think the read-only flag belongs to
the medium as well. There are probably more candidates.
Kevin
- Re: [Qemu-devel] BlockDriverState stack and BlockListeners, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] BlockDriverState stack and BlockListeners, Kevin Wolf, 2012/02/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] BlockDriverState stack and BlockListeners, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/02/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] BlockDriverState stack and BlockListeners, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/02/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] BlockDriverState stack and BlockListeners, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/02/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] BlockDriverState stack and BlockListeners, Markus Armbruster, 2012/02/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] BlockDriverState stack and BlockListeners, Kevin Wolf, 2012/02/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] BlockDriverState stack and BlockListeners, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/02/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] BlockDriverState stack and BlockListeners, Markus Armbruster, 2012/02/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] BlockDriverState stack and BlockListeners, Kevin Wolf, 2012/02/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] BlockDriverState stack and BlockListeners, Markus Armbruster, 2012/02/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] BlockDriverState stack and BlockListeners,
Kevin Wolf <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] BlockDriverState stack and BlockListeners, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/02/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] BlockDriverState stack and BlockListeners, Ori Mamluk, 2012/02/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] BlockDriverState stack and BlockListeners, Ori Mamluk, 2012/02/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] replication agent module, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/02/08
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Replication agent requirements (was [RFC PATCH] replication agent module), Ori Mamluk, 2012/02/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Replication agent requirements (was [RFC PATCH] replication agent module), Anthony Liguori, 2012/02/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] replication agent module, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/02/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] replication agent module, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/02/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] replication agent module, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/02/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] replication agent module, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/02/08