From: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>,
qemu-block@nongnu.org, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] block: Update the x-blockdev-del documentation
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:14:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <07c19103660708d7b728f9521686b07c7a021645.1454940776.git.berto@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bfce913f68d95284746e7cf3693703f5361b26f.1454940776.git.berto@igalia.com>
In-Reply-To: <7bfce913f68d95284746e7cf3693703f5361b26f.1454940776.git.berto@igalia.com>
Explain what happens if the user tries to delete a BlockBackend that
contains media that was added separately using blockdev-add.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
---
qapi/block-core.json | 5 ++++-
qmp-commands.hx | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json
index 33012b8..cc59ab9 100644
--- a/qapi/block-core.json
+++ b/qapi/block-core.json
@@ -2089,7 +2089,10 @@
#
# In the former case the backend will be destroyed, along with its
# inserted medium if there's any. The command will fail if the backend
-# or its medium are in use.
+# or its medium are in use. If the medium was also created with
+# blockdev-add then the command will succeed, the backend will be
+# destroyed but the medium will remain until it is deleted with
+# x-blockdev-del.
#
# In the latter case the node will be destroyed. The command will fail
# if the node is attached to a block backend or is otherwise being
diff --git a/qmp-commands.hx b/qmp-commands.hx
index 020e5ee..9710686 100644
--- a/qmp-commands.hx
+++ b/qmp-commands.hx
@@ -4151,7 +4151,10 @@ The selected device can be either a block backend or a graph node.
In the former case the backend will be destroyed, along with its
inserted medium if there's any. The command will fail if the backend
-or its medium are in use.
+or its medium are in use. If the medium was also created with
+blockdev-add then the command will succeed, the backend will be
+destroyed but the medium will remain until it is deleted with
+x-blockdev-del.
In the latter case the node will be destroyed. The command will fail
if the node is attached to a block backend or is otherwise being
--
2.7.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-08 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-08 14:14 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] block: Allow x-blockdev-del on a BB with a monitor-owned BDS Alberto Garcia
2016-02-08 14:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] iotests: Update test 139 after the changes in x-blockdev-del Alberto Garcia
2016-02-09 15:36 ` Eric Blake
2016-02-09 15:44 ` Alberto Garcia
2016-02-08 14:14 ` Alberto Garcia [this message]
2016-02-09 15:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] block: Update the x-blockdev-del documentation Eric Blake
2016-02-09 10:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] block: Allow x-blockdev-del on a BB with a monitor-owned BDS Kevin Wolf
2016-02-09 10:47 ` Alberto Garcia
2016-02-09 15:34 ` Eric Blake
2016-02-09 15:39 ` Alberto Garcia
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