[libvirt] [PATCH v2] Add new attribute writeout to <filesystem> element

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 05:25:49PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 12/22/2011 03:20 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> >>>  Usage:
> >>>  <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough' writeout='immediate'>
> >>>     <source dir='/export/to/guest'/>
> >>>     <target dir='mount_tag'/>
> >>>  </filesystem>
> >I still don't like the proposed XML.  We need to get consensus on where
> >to put it, with my proposal being:
> >
> ><filesystem type='mount'>
> >   <driver type='path' write='immediate'/>
> >   <source dir='/export/to/guest'/>
> >   <target dir='mount_tag'/>
> ></filesystem>
> 
> Right, other types of drivers might include a userspace NFS client,
> or some kind of "artificial" filesystem.
> 
> In addition, instead of write='immediate' I suggest
> cache='writeback'/cache='writethrough'.

Yeah I agree - we should follow the syntax we already use for caching
with the <disk> element instead of inventing new syntax


Daniel
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