Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2 v2] Add blkmirror block driver

[Federico Simoncelli]

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> From: "Eric Blake" <address@hidden>
> To: "Federico Simoncelli" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, 
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> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 6:02:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2 v2] Add blkmirror block driver
> > +++ b/docs/blkmirror.txt
> > @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
> > +Block mirror driver
> > +-------------------
> > +
> > +This driver will mirror writes to two distinct images.
> > +It's used internally by live block copy.
> > +
> > +Format
> > +------
> > +
> > +blkmirror:/image1.img:/image2.img
> > +
> > +'\' (backslash) can be used to escape colon processing
> > +as a separator, in the first image filename.
> > +Backslashes themselves also can be escaped as '\\'.
> 
> Is the escaping of : and \ only necessary for image1.img, or for both
> image1 and image2?  I need to know if the parser is consistent for
> both
> arguments, but this wording makes it sound like it is only for the
> first
> argument.

Yes it is only for the first argument.

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Federico