Kaleb Keithley
2016-Mar-07 19:05 UTC
[Gluster-users] Fwd: qemu-block: deprecated/defunct.. really?
----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Niels de Vos" <ndevos at redhat.com> On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 12:19:51PM -0500, Kaleb Keithley wrote:> Hi, > > No, I only proposed, via an RFC, to remove it. > > I also posted emails to gluster-devel[1] and gluster-users[2] asking > people to speak up and let us know if they are still using it. > > Independent of that, doesn't qemu (or libvirt) use the newer gfapi > functionality to access images on gluster volumes?Yes, it does. The removal of qemu-block from the Gluster sources should not affect the ability to use the gluster://volume/dir/image.qcow2 URLs with QEMU. QEMU uses libgfapi for this (see block/gluster.c in the QEMU sources if interested).> Please send an email either or both of the gluster-users or > gluster-devel mailings lists and register your opinion about the > proposal.I would like to see the question there as well. We can send an other confirmation about it. I am pretty confident that if one user has a quesion like this, many others would like to know the answer too. Thanks, Niels> > Thanks, > > -- > > Kaleb > > > [1]https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048556.html > [2]https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-March/025665.html > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ale? Kapica" <kapica at fel.cvut.cz> > > To: kkeithle at redhat.com > > Cc: jdarcy at redhat.com > > Sent: Monday, March 7, 2016 8:49:57 AM > > Subject: qemu-block: deprecated/defunct.. really? > > > > In last changes git repository you removed qemu-block xlator from GlusterFS, > > with comment "qemu-block xlator is not used by anyone, or so I'm told." > > (commit 6860968 from 18.2,2016). > > > > It calmed me. > > > > I use GlusterFS Qemu api for booting virtual machines from storage by using > > image file from GlusterFS volume, what is storaged in the same volume as > > system files. Another files are delivered over NFS Ganesha. May influence > > it, or not your patch? Example as I use it.. > > > > qemu-system-x86_64 ... -device virtio-scsi-pci -drive > > file=gluster+tcp://10.0.0.216/diskless/k2-boot.img,if=none,index=0,id=gluster0,cache=none,media=disk,format=raw > > -device scsi-hd,drive=gluster0 ... > > > > Root of volume diskless.. > > /k2-boot.img > > /system > > |- bin > > |- boot (mountpoint for block device gluster0 aka /dev/sda1) > > |- dev > > ... & etc. > > > > Thank you of your answer. > > > > Ale? Kapica, DCE FEL CVUT > > > > -- > > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > >-------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc URL: <http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20160307/fde39af1/attachment.asc>