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From: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/5] qmp: add monitor command to
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On 09/14/2015 11:37 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 10.09.2015 um 11:55 hat Wen Congyang geschrieben:
>> +##
>> +# @x-child-add
>> +#
>> +# Add a new child to the parent BDS. Currently only the Quorum driver
>> +# implements this feature. This is useful to fix a broken quorum child.
>> +#
>> +# @parent: graph node name or id which the child will be added to.
>> +#
>> +# @child: graph node name that will be added.
>> +#
>> +# Note: this command is experimental, and not a stable API.
>> +#
>> +# Since: 2.5
>> +##
>> +{ 'command': 'x-child-add',
>> +  'data' : { 'parent': 'str', 'child': 'str' } }
> 
> This is probably not future-proof and only made for the special case of
> quorum. Specifically, one thing I'm missing is some way to specfiy what
> kind of child the new node is when a node can take different types of
> children (e.g. bs->file and bs->backing_hd).

Currently, we only add/remove quorum's child. We can add a new parameter
to specify the type in the furture to support more things.

Thanks
Wen Congyang

> 
> Kevin
> .
>