[libvirt] [PATCH] docs: Document <filesystem> device

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Fri Apr 29 18:34:35 UTC 2011


On 04/29/2011 01:40 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/29/2011 11:29 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> Tried to dredge through old changelogs and commits to come up with it, so
>> may not be completely accurate.
> 
> Maybe true, but still better than nothing.  Thanks for tackling this.
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  docs/formatdomain.html.in |  107 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
>> index a055b38..eafb983 100644
>> --- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in
>> +++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
>> @@ -903,6 +903,113 @@
>>        </dd>
>>      </dl>
>>  
>> +    <h4><a name="elementsFilesystems">Filesystems</a></h4>
>> +
>> +    <p>
>> +      A directory on the host that can be accessed directly from the guest.
>> +      <span class="since">since 0.3.3 for containers, since 0.8.5 for QEMU/KVM</span>
> 
> Should this read 'LXC containers'?
> 

Actually I think OpenVZ is basically a 'container' so I meant it for
both. Basically <filesystem> has been supported for OpenVZ and LXC since
their first commits more or less, so I just dropped the 'for containers'
bit here.

>> +        <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-05/msg02673.html">More info</a>
>> +        </dd>
>> +        <dt><code>mode='mapped'</code></dt>
>> +        <dd>
>> +        The <code>source</code> is accessed with the permissions of the
>> +        hypervisor (QEMU process).
>> +        <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-05/msg02673.html">More info</a>
>> +        </dd>
>> +        <dt><code>mode='squash'</code></dt>
>> +        <dd>
>> +        Similar to 'passthrough', the exception is that failure of
>> +        privileged operations like 'chown' are ignored. This makes a
>> +        passthrough-like mode usable for people who run the hypervisor
>> +        as non-root.
>> +        <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg41096.html">More info</a>
> 
> For consistency, we should use
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-09/msg00121.html
> for the third URL, so that all three are pointing to the same archive site.
>

Ah, tried to find that but somehow missed it in the google results.

Pushed now.

Thanks,
Cole



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