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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status
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Alex Bligh |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status |
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Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:18:58 +0000 |
> On 14 Dec 2016, at 18:13, Wouter Verhelst <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Instead, I would suggest that the spec leave it up to the namespace spec
> to define what gets listed when. The namespace should still give some
> indication that a particular *type* of context is available, though;
> e.g., _LIST_ could return 'backup:snapshot-diff{*}' as well as a list of
> 'backup:snapshot{snapshot-X}' contexts, where the latter are all
> available snapshots, and the 'snapshot-diff' bit implies that the whole
> cartesian product of all possible diffs between snapshots is possible in
> a format of 'backup:snapshot-diff{snapshot-X:snapshot-Y}', or some such
> (you get the idea).
>
> The spec currently says that a server SHOULD allow choosing exports by
> simply naming them, but doesn't make that a MUST; and it also says that
> the query format is defined by the namespace. If we simply clarify that
> the output of _LIST_ doesn't necessarily need to be a full list of all
> that's available (that it may be symbolic in the case of namespaces that
> allow things to be dynamically defined), we should be good.
Let me have a go at a change.
However, note that Vladimir was answering a slightly different question.
I was asking about listing ALL contexts (previously an empty query
string, now a zero length list of queries), not a 'backup:*' type
thing.
--
Alex Bligh
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status, Alex Bligh, 2016/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy, 2016/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status, Alex Bligh, 2016/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy, 2016/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status, Alex Bligh, 2016/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy, 2016/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status, Wouter Verhelst, 2016/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status,
Alex Bligh <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status, Wouter Verhelst, 2016/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status, Alex Bligh, 2016/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status, Wouter Verhelst, 2016/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy, 2016/12/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status, Alex Bligh, 2016/12/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy, 2016/12/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status, Alex Bligh, 2016/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status, Wouter Verhelst, 2016/12/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status, Alex Bligh, 2016/12/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] Further tidy-up on block status, Wouter Verhelst, 2016/12/15