Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] docs: Document <filesystem> device

Tried to dredge through old changelogs and commits to come up with it, so may not be completely accurate.

Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso(a)redhat.com&gt; --- docs/formatdomain.html.in | 107 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in index a055b38..eafb983 100644 --- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in +++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in @@ -903,6 +903,113 @@ </dd> </dl> + <h4><a name="elementsFilesystems">Filesystems</a></h4> + + <p> + A directory on the host that can be accessed directly from the guest. + <span class="since">since 0.3.3 for containers, since 0.8.5 for QEMU/KVM</span>

+ <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-05/msg02673.... info</a> + </dd> + <dt><code>mode='mapped'</code></dt> + <dd> + The <code>source</code> is accessed with the permissions of the + hypervisor (QEMU process). + <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-05/msg02673.... info</a> + </dd> + <dt><code>mode='squash'</code></dt> + <dd> + Similar to 'passthrough', the exception is that failure of + privileged operations like 'chown' are ignored. This makes a + passthrough-like mode usable for people who run the hypervisor + as non-root. + <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg41096.htm... info</a>