[libvirt] [PATCH] storage: Fix mention of disk pool default

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Wed Aug 29 22:22:17 UTC 2018


The default disk storage pool type is 'dos', not 'msdos'.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>
---

I ran into this doc bug when trying to figure out why a disk storage
pool that I had copied from another machine wouldn't autostart; it
turns out that the old disk used BIOS partitioning (dos), and the new
one uses UEFI (gpt).

I wonder if it would be nicer if a disk pool without a default
partition type supplied by the user could auto-detect the right
format, rather than defaulting to dos, but that's a bigger question
that I won't be tackling, and wouldn't have necessarily helped me
(if the <target> element was already present when I copied the file).

 docs/storage.html.in | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/storage.html.in b/docs/storage.html.in
index e9e6ec7423..6ec623831c 100644
--- a/docs/storage.html.in
+++ b/docs/storage.html.in
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@
       on the size and placement of volumes. The 'free extents'
       information will detail the regions which are available for creating
       new volumes. A volume cannot span across 2 different free extents.
-      It will default to using <code>msdos</code> as the pool source format.
+      It will default to using <code>dos</code> as the pool source format.
     </p>

     <h3>Example pool input</h3>
-- 
2.17.1




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