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

On 04/29/2011 11:29 AM, Cole Robinson wrote: > Tried to dredge through old changelogs and commits to come up with it, so > may not be completely accurate. Maybe true, but still better than nothing. Thanks for tackling this. > > 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> Should this read 'LXC containers'?

> + <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> For consistency, we should use http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-09/msg00121.html for the third URL, so that all three are pointing to the same archive site.