Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 03/10] quorum: Add quorum_open().

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 10.08.2012 19:48, schrieb Benoît Canet:
> Le Tuesday 07 Aug 2012 à 20:30:09 (+0000), Blue Swirl a écrit :
>> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Benoît Canet <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Benoit Canet <address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>>  block/quorum.c |   62 
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 62 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/block/quorum.c b/block/quorum.c
>>> index e0405b6..de58ab8 100644
>>> --- a/block/quorum.c
>>> +++ b/block/quorum.c
>>> @@ -47,11 +47,73 @@ struct QuorumAIOCB {
>>>      int vote_ret;
>>>  };
>>>
>>> +/* Valid quorum filenames look like
>>> + * quorum:path/to/a_image:path/to/b_image:path/to/c_image
>>
>> This syntax would mean that stacking for example curl or other network
>> paths would not be possible. How about comma as separator?
> 
> I just tried comma but it fail because the qemu command line parsing
> catch it believing that the string next to the coma is another "file="
> like options.
> 
> Is there any other separator we can use ?

I would ignore that for now, or you can introduce your own escaping of
colons. The real solution is, once again, -blockdev.

Kevin