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.
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+ <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.html">More 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.html">More 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.html">More 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. ACK with nits addressed. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org