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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 2/2] block: Support GlusterFS as a QEMU block
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Avi Kivity |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 2/2] block: Support GlusterFS as a QEMU block backend |
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Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:29:36 +0300 |
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On 08/14/2012 12:58 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>
>> While we are at this, let me bring out another issue. Gluster supports 3
>> transport types:
>>
>> - socket in which case the server will be hostname, ipv4 or ipv4 address.
>> - rdma in which case server will be interpreted similar to socket.
>> - unix in which case server will be a path to unix domain socket and this
>> will look like any other filesystem path. (Eg. /tmp/glusterd.socket)
>>
>> I don't think we can fit 'unix' within the standard URI scheme (RFC 3986)
>> easily, but I am planning to specify the 'unix' transport as below:
>>
>> gluster://[/path/to/unix/domain/socket]/volname/image?transport=unix
>>
>> i,e., I am asking the user to put the unix domain socket path within
>> square brackets when transport type is unix.
>>
>> Do you think this is fine ?
>
> Never saw something like this before, but it does seem reasonable to me.
> Excludes ] from the valid characters in the file name of the socket, but
> that shouldn't be a problem in practice.
Bikeshedding, but I prefer
gluster:///path/to/unix/domain/socket:/volname/image?transport=unix
as being more similar to file://, or even
gluster:///path/to/unix/domain/socket/volname/image?transport=unix
with the last two components implied to be part of the payload, not the
path.
--
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 2/2] block: Support GlusterFS as a QEMU block backend,
Avi Kivity <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 2/2] block: Support GlusterFS as a QEMU block backend, Bharata B Rao, 2012/09/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 2/2] block: Support GlusterFS as a QEMU block backend, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/09/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 2/2] block: Support GlusterFS as a QEMU block backend, Daniel P. Berrange, 2012/09/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 2/2] block: Support GlusterFS as a QEMU block backend, ronnie sahlberg, 2012/09/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 2/2] block: Support GlusterFS as a QEMU block backend, Avi Kivity, 2012/09/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 2/2] block: Support GlusterFS as a QEMU block backend, Bharata B Rao, 2012/09/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 2/2] block: Support GlusterFS as a QEMU block backend, Daniel P. Berrange, 2012/09/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 2/2] block: Support GlusterFS as a QEMU block backend, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/09/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 2/2] block: Support GlusterFS as a QEMU block backend, Kevin Wolf, 2012/09/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 2/2] block: Support GlusterFS as a QEMU block backend, Bharata B Rao, 2012/09/12