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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools/hotplug/Linux/blktap: remove optional tapd
Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@xxxxxxxxxx> 16.04.10 22:51 >>>
>>>>
>> Jan Beulich wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps this should even be further generalized (e.g. to remove any
>>> "[!/]*:" pattern prefixes) to be more forward compatible?
>>>
>>>
>> Right. Need to handle the 'ioemu' subtype as well. How about just
>> stripping of everything before the leading '/'? E.g. like the attached
>> patch?
>>
>
> Wouldn't that become wrong when remote locations are acceptable
> here (not sure if they aren't already), i.e. server:/path/file?
IMO, remote locations should be handled by another tap driver optimized
for the remote file protocol, similar to the nbd, curl, etc. block
backends in qemu.
> If that
> is not expected to ever have a meaning and if relative paths aren't
> permitted here, then yes, that would of course be the best solution.
>
The tools currently don't cope with relative paths in disk specification.
Jim
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