Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] block: gluster - code movements, state storage changes

[Jeff Cody]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 03:21:28PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 02:26:58PM -0500, Jeff Cody wrote:
> > @@ -291,23 +311,17 @@ static int qemu_gluster_open(BlockDriverState *bs,  
> > QDict *options,
> >  
> >      filename = qemu_opt_get(opts, "filename");
> >  
> > +    s->filename = g_strdup(filename);
> 
> It's not obvious to me that copying the filename is necessary.
> block/raw-posix.c does this:
> 
>   raw_s->fd = qemu_open(state->bs->filename, raw_s->open_flags);
> 
> Why didn't you use bs->filename?
>

Back when the raw-posix reopen was implemented, the .bdrv_file_open
used the char * filename instead of options parameters.  Now that the
filename is explicitly parsed via the options, I thought it made
logical sense to cache the filename into the protocol state variable,
for later use by reopen.

That way if the bs->filename was changed in some manner, the protocol
would have the variable as originally intended to be passed to the
.bdrv_file_open() method.

In reality, I should be able to just use bs->filename instead, as it
does not get modified; this just seemed to make a bit more sense.