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

[Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce@redhat.com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Luiz Capitulino" <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
> To: "Federico Simoncelli" <fsimonce@redhat.com>
> Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, mtosatti@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, kwolf@redhat.com, armbru@redhat.com
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 7:17:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] Add blkmirror block driver
> 
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:49:03 +0000
> Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > +    /* Parse the raw image filename */
> > +    filename2 = g_malloc(strlen(filename)+1);
> > +    escape = 0;
> > +    for (i = n = 0; i < strlen(filename); i++) {
> > +        if (!escape && filename[i] == ':') {
> > +            break;
> > +        }
> > +        if (!escape && filename[i] == '\\') {
> > +            escape = 1;
> > +        } else {
> > +            escape = 0;
> > +        }
> > +
> > +        if (!escape) {
> > +            filename2[n++] = filename[i];
> > +        }
> > +    }
> > +    filename2[n] = '\0';
> 
> You're escaping only the first image name string, is that
> intentional?

Yes, it was also documented here by Marcelo:

> > diff --git a/docs/blkmirror.txt b/docs/blkmirror.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..cf73f3f
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ 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 '\\'.
> > +
> > +

Anyway this format is encapsulated by blockdev-migrate.

-- 
Federico