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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extensio
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension |
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Tue, 5 Apr 2016 17:23:18 +0200 |
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On 05/04/2016 17:01, Alex Bligh wrote:
>>> >> So qemu-nbdserver has some idea of 'dirtiness', and you want
>>> >> to publish that, and the consumer is qemu (and only qemu),
>>> >> because only qemu knows what 'dirtiness' means in the
>>> >> sense the server provides it?
>> >
>> > The consumer is not QEMU; the consumer is backup software which is not
>> > part of QEMU (and could even be proprietary, ugh).
> I'm missing how the ugh-author can write the software without knowing
> exactly what the bit does. Or are you saying "that's a matter
> for the qemu spec, not the nbd spec"?
Yes, that's it. NBD defines a safe default and a general idea of what
it should be used for.
Paolo
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Alex Bligh, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Eric Blake, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Denis V. Lunev, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Alex Bligh, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Denis V. Lunev, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Eric Blake, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Denis V. Lunev, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Alex Bligh, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Paolo Bonzini, 2016/04/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Alex Bligh, 2016/04/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension,
Paolo Bonzini <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Alex Bligh, 2016/04/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Paolo Bonzini, 2016/04/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Wouter Verhelst, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Eric Blake, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Wouter Verhelst, 2016/04/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Wouter Verhelst, 2016/04/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Alex Bligh, 2016/04/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Alex Bligh, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Denis V. Lunev, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH v2] doc: Add NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS extension, Alex Bligh, 2016/04/04