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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V9 00/11] Quorum block driver
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Max Reitz |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V9 00/11] Quorum block driver |
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Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:56:34 +0100 |
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Am 29.10.2013 18:55, schrieb Max Reitz:
> Am 29.10.2013 08:59, schrieb Benoît Canet:
>> Le Friday 04 Oct 2013 à 16:31:56 (+0200), Max Reitz a écrit :
>>> On 2013-10-02 14:39, Benoît Canet wrote:
>>>> It must be applied on top of "block: Add
>>>> BlockDriver.bdrv_check_ext_snapshot."
>>>>
>>>> This patchset create a block driver implementing a quorum using total qemu
>>>> disk
>>>> images. Writes are mirrored on the $total files.
>>>> For the reading part the $total files are read at the same time and a vote
>>>> is
>>>> done to determine if a qiov version is present $threshold or more times.
>>>> It then
>>>> return this majority version to the upper layers.
>>>> When i < $threshold versions of the data are returned by the lower layer
>>>> the
>>>> quorum is broken and the read return -EIO.
>>>>
>>>> The goal of this patchset is to be turned in a QEMU block filter living
>>>> just
>>>> above raw-*.c and below qcow2/qed when the required infrastructure will be
>>>> done.
>>>>
>>>> Main use of this feature will be people using NFS appliances which can be
>>>> subjected to bitflip errors.
>>>>
>>>> This patchset can be used to replace blkverify and the out of tree
>>>> blkmirror.
>>>>
>>>> v9: integrate latests comments from kevin
>>>>
>>>> Benoît Canet (11):
>>>> quorum: Create quorum.c, add QuorumSingleAIOCB and QuorumAIOCB.
>>>> quorum: Create BDRVQuorumState and BlkDriver and do init.
>>>> quorum: Add quorum_aio_writev and its dependencies.
>>>> blkverify: Extract qemu_iovec_clone() and qemu_iovec_compare() from
>>>> blkverify.
>>>> quorum: Add quorum_aio_readv.
>>>> quorum: Add quorum mechanism.
>>>> quorum: Add quorum_getlength().
>>>> quorum: Add quorum_invalidate_cache().
>>>> quorum: Add quorum_co_get_block_status.
>>>> quorum: Add quorum_co_flush().
>>>> quorum: Add quorum_open() and quorum_close().
>>>>
>>>> block/Makefile.objs | 1 +
>>>> block/blkverify.c | 108 +----
>>>> block/quorum.c | 1035
>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>> configure | 36 ++
>>>> include/monitor/monitor.h | 2 +
>>>> include/qemu-common.h | 2 +
>>>> monitor.c | 2 +
>>>> util/iov.c | 103 +++++
>>>> 8 files changed, 1183 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)
>>>> create mode 100644 block/quorum.c
>>>>
>>> Could you add a qemu-iotest if possible?
>> I don't see how to specify quorum to qemu-io for bytes checking.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Benoît
> As of commit b543c5cd, you can pass options to the block driver through
> qemu-io -c open. The problem for quorum is that it cannot handle the
> filename option (which qemu-io will always set). I've attached a diff to
> change this behavior (which makes the path parameter for open optional
> and passes NULL to bdrv_open if it is not given). You're free to make
> use of it. ;-)
>
> If this diff is applied, you can invoke qemu-io with quorum for example
> as following:
> qemu-io -c 'open -o
> file.driver=quorum,file.children.0.file.filename=[Image
> 1],file.children.1.file.filename=[Image 2],file.vote_threshold=[x]'
>
> Max
Obviously forgot to attach the diff.
Max
qemu-io-open.diff
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V9 06/11] quorum: Add quorum mechanism., (continued)
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH V9 11/11] quorum: Add quorum_open() and quorum_close()., Benoît Canet, 2013/10/02
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V9 00/11] Quorum block driver, Max Reitz, 2013/10/04