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

[Eric Blake]

On 02/24/2012 09:49 AM, Federico Simoncelli wrote:
> From: Marcelo Tosatti <address@hidden>
> 
> Mirrored writes are used by live block copy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Federico Simoncelli <address@hidden>
> ---

> +++ b/block/blkmirror.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,247 @@
> +/*
> + * Block driver for mirrored writes.
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2011 Red Hat, Inc.

It's 2012 now.

> +++ 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.

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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