ping? Thanks - John (couple of bz's sprinkled in here too from previous postings - patch 2 and patch 10 dealing with NO_OVERWRITE) On 12/15/2016 04:42 PM, John Ferlan wrote: > Two of these patches (2 and 10) are followups to no-overwrite patches > previously posted (I left links in the patches for reference). > > Essentially this series works to unify the probing code from the file > system backend using blkid and the parted format reading code from the > disk backend in one common set of functions. > > In doing so, the disk backend will now pick up the ability to use the > blkid 'partitions' APIs in order to "probe" the target device for a > valid/known partition format type. Additionally, the file system > probe will pick up a fallback to the parted mechanism from the disk > backend if the 'blkid' APIs are not built into the system. > > A few extra bells/whistles were added for fs pool startup to ensure that > the format in the startup XML matches the format on the target disk, > which is essentially the mechanism the disk backend used (although it > was slightly broken). > > Then in order to really pile on, the overwrite logic was added to the > logical pool which didn't have any such checking (both build and start). > > Testing was done locally using an iSCSI device and laying down different > formats and seeing what would happen on various usages of the format > (with --overwrite and --no-overwrite). > > John Ferlan (11): > storage: Introduce virStorageBackendDeviceProbeEmpty > storage: Fix implementation of no-overwrite for file system backend > storage: Add partition type checks for BLKID probing > storage: Add writelabel bool for virStorageBackendDeviceProbe > storage: For FS pool check for properly formatted target volume > storage: Move and rename disk backend label checking > storage: Adjust disk label found to match labels > storage: Clean up logical pool devices on build failure > storage: Extract logical device initialize into a helper > storage: Add overwrite flag checking for logical pool > storage: Validate the device formats at logical startup > > src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 + > src/storage/storage_backend.c | 396 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > src/storage/storage_backend.h | 4 + > src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c | 150 ++----------- > src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c | 118 ++-------- > src/storage/storage_backend_fs.h | 5 - > src/storage/storage_backend_logical.c | 180 ++++++++++------ > tools/virsh-pool.c | 2 +- > tools/virsh.pod | 42 ++-- > 9 files changed, 585 insertions(+), 313 deletions(-) > -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list