In order to remove the necessity to use BlockBackend names in the
external API, we want to allow node-names everywhere. This converts
blockdev-mirror to accept a node-name without lifting the restriction
that we're operating at a root node.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Error **errp)
{
BlockDriverState *bs;
- BlockBackend *blk;
BlockDriverState *target_bs;
AioContext *aio_context;
BlockMirrorBackingMode backing_mode = MIRROR_LEAVE_BACKING_CHAIN;
Error *local_err = NULL;
- blk = blk_by_name(device);
- if (!blk) {
- error_setg(errp, "Device '%s' not found", device);
- return;
- }
- bs = blk_bs(blk);
-
+ bs = qmp_get_root_bs(device, errp);
if (!bs) {
- error_setg(errp, "Device '%s' has no media", device);
return;
}
# @job-id: #optional identifier for the newly-created block job. If
# omitted, the device name will be used. (Since 2.7)
#
-# @device: the name of the device whose writes should be mirrored.
+# @device: The device name or node-name of a root node whose writes should be
+# mirrored.
#
# @target: the id or node-name of the block device to mirror to. This mustn't be
# attached to guest.
- "job-id": Identifier for the newly-created block job. If omitted,
the device name will be used. (json-string, optional)
-- "device": device name to operate on (json-string)
+- "device": The device name or node-name of a root node whose writes should be
+ mirrored (json-string)
- "target": device name to mirror to (json-string)
- "replaces": the block driver node name to replace when finished
(json-string, optional)