From ef809f709de81aef01bbb7403b87cbe2ac7e0c10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kevin Wolf Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 10:48:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: qsd: Explain --export nbd,name=... default The 'name' option for NBD exports is optional. Add a note that the default for the option is the node name (people could otherwise expect that it's the empty string like for qemu-nbd). Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf Message-Id: <20210305094856.18964-1-kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz Reviewed-by: Eric Blake Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf --- docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst b/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst index fe3042d609..086493ebb3 100644 --- a/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst +++ b/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst @@ -80,8 +80,9 @@ Standard options: requests for modifying data (the default is off). The ``nbd`` export type requires ``--nbd-server`` (see below). ``name`` is - the NBD export name. ``bitmap`` is the name of a dirty bitmap reachable from - the block node, so the NBD client can use NBD_OPT_SET_META_CONTEXT with the + the NBD export name (if not specified, it defaults to the given + ``node-name``). ``bitmap`` is the name of a dirty bitmap reachable from the + block node, so the NBD client can use NBD_OPT_SET_META_CONTEXT with the metadata context name "qemu:dirty-bitmap:BITMAP" to inspect the bitmap. The ``vhost-user-blk`` export type takes a vhost-user socket address on which