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| author | Kevin Wolf | 2021-03-05 10:48:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Kevin Wolf | 2021-03-08 14:56:55 +0100 |
| commit | ef809f709de81aef01bbb7403b87cbe2ac7e0c10 (patch) | |
| tree | 147b3debc9012ccda0c541fe1df6634f5de9cb2f /docs | |
| parent | MAINTAINERS: update parallels block driver (diff) | |
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docs: qsd: Explain --export nbd,name=... default
The 'name' option for NBD exports is optional. Add a note that the
default for the option is the node name (people could otherwise expect
that it's the empty string like for qemu-nbd).
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210305094856.18964-1-kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst b/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst index fe3042d609..086493ebb3 100644 --- a/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst +++ b/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst @@ -80,8 +80,9 @@ Standard options: requests for modifying data (the default is off). The ``nbd`` export type requires ``--nbd-server`` (see below). ``name`` is - the NBD export name. ``bitmap`` is the name of a dirty bitmap reachable from - the block node, so the NBD client can use NBD_OPT_SET_META_CONTEXT with the + the NBD export name (if not specified, it defaults to the given + ``node-name``). ``bitmap`` is the name of a dirty bitmap reachable from the + block node, so the NBD client can use NBD_OPT_SET_META_CONTEXT with the metadata context name "qemu:dirty-bitmap:BITMAP" to inspect the bitmap. The ``vhost-user-blk`` export type takes a vhost-user socket address on which |