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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xl: Special case tap/aio for disk validation

To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xl: Special case tap/aio for disk validation
From: Kamala Narasimhan <kamala.narasimhan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:43:37 -0500
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Kamala Narasimhan \(3P\)" <kamala.narasimhan@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Shall we pre-deprecate the someprefix: along with all the
> tap:{aio,ioemu,FOO}: stuff while we are at this? IOW the syntax we want
> to actually support going forward would be:
>       (raw|vhd|qcow2|qcow):/path/to/something
> with the toolstack being at liberty to best decide how to achieve the
> necessary format support? (optionally raw: as the default). All the rest
> of the format is really semantically meaningless and supported only for
> compatibility with existing configuration files.
>

That sure does simply things!  When we have multiple backends that work with 
different file formats for users to choose from, we can revisit this.

Kamala
 
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