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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] xen: add block device backe
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Samuel Thibault |
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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] xen: add block device backend driver. |
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Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:36:32 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 |
Gerd Hoffmann, le Tue 05 Aug 2008 13:07:52 +0200, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Gerd Hoffmann, le Tue 05 Aug 2008 08:52:26 +0200, a écrit :
> >>> There is: the info node, which is an OR of the
> >>> VDISK_CDROM/REMOVABLE/READONLY flags.
> >> Who sets that node? Backend driver or xend?
> >
> > backend, see linux/driver/xen/blkback/xenbus.c
>
> Hmm, ok.
>
> mode="r" (in backend directory) means readonly, ok.
> device-type="cdrom" (backend dir too) means cdrom, ok.
These are set by xend, i.e. when they come from the config, indeed.
> removable can't be indicated to the backend via xenstore?
Doesn't look like it is possible. Why would you want to do that?
> btw: Looks like blktap doesn't set any VDISK_* flags?
I guess that's because blktap doesn't have the information. The "info"
node is information about the underlying source of data, detected by
the block backend, while "mode" and "device-type" are configured by the
user (and should override the "info" information I guess).
Samuel
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] xen: add block device backend driver., (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] xen: add block device backend driver., Blue Swirl, 2008/08/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] xen: add block device backend driver., Gerd Hoffmann, 2008/08/05
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] xen: add block device backend driver., Samuel Thibault, 2008/08/04
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] xen: add block device backend driver., Gerd Hoffmann, 2008/08/05
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] xen: add block device backend driver., Samuel Thibault, 2008/08/05
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] xen: add block device backend driver., Gerd Hoffmann, 2008/08/05
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] xen: add block device backend driver.,
Samuel Thibault <=
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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] xen: add framebuffer backend driver, Gerd Hoffmann, 2008/08/04
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] xen: blk & nic configuration via cmd line., Gerd Hoffmann, 2008/08/04