Re: [RFC PATCH 00/18] Add qemu-storage-daemon

[Eric Blake]

On 11/6/19 8:58 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:

> > Well, but anyway.  Just as I didn’t have anything against adding QMP to
> > qemu-nbd, I don’t have anything against adding a new application that
> > kind of fulfills the same purpose.  And I think introducing a new
> > application instead of reusing qemu-nbd that focuses on all-around QAPI
> > compatibility (which qemu-nbd decidedly does not have) makes sense.
>
> Yes, QAPI is one big reason for creating a new tool that doesn't need to
> support the old qemu-nbd command line. Another is that we can add other
> types of exports that are not NBD.

If we could make qemu-nbd a thin wrapper around the new tool (even if 
the two are not necessarily command-line compatible), that might be 
worthwhile.

> > The only thing I don’t like is the name, but that’s what <Tab> is for.
> > :-)
>
> I'm open for suggestions, but I thought 'qsd' was a bit too terse. :-)
>
> (Actually, maybe we could even pick something that doesn't mention
> storage or block? After all, it can do all kinds of QEMU backends in
> theory. Not sure if there's any standalone use for them, but who
> knows...)

Maybe 'qback', for qemu-backend?

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