libvirt/docs/schemas/storagevol.rng
Chunyan Liu a9fd30e633 storagevol: add nocow to vol xml
Add 'nocow' to storage volume xml so that user can have an option
to set NOCOW flag to the newly created volume. It's useful on btrfs
file system to enhance performance.

Btrfs has low performance when hosting VM images, even more when the guest
in those VM are also using btrfs as file system. One way to mitigate this
bad performance is to turn off COW attributes on VM files. Generally, there
are two ways to turn off COW on btrfs: a) by mounting fs with nodatacow,
then all newly created files will be NOCOW. b) per file. Add the NOCOW file
attribute. It could only be done to empty or new files.

This patch tries the second way, according to 'nocow' option, it could set
NOCOW flag per file:
for raw file images, handle 'nocow' in libvirt code; for non-raw file images,
pass 'nocow=on' option to qemu-img, and let qemu-img to handle that (requires
qemu-img version >= 2.1).

Signed-off-by: Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>
2014-07-16 13:35:20 +02:00

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- A Relax NG schema for the libvirt storage volume XML format -->
<grammar xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"
datatypeLibrary="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes">
<include href='basictypes.rng'/>
<start>
<ref name='vol'/>
</start>
<include href='storagecommon.rng'/>
<define name='vol'>
<element name='volume'>
<optional>
<attribute name='type'>
<choice>
<value>file</value>
<value>block</value>
<value>dir</value>
<value>network</value>
<value>netdir</value>
</choice>
</attribute>
</optional>
<interleave>
<element name='name'>
<ref name='volName'/>
</element>
<optional>
<element name='key'>
<text/>
</element>
</optional>
<optional>
<ref name='source'/>
</optional>
<ref name='sizing'/>
<ref name='target'/>
<optional>
<ref name='backingStore'/>
</optional>
</interleave>
</element>
</define>
<define name='sizing'>
<interleave>
<optional>
<element name='capacity'>
<ref name='scaledInteger'/>
</element>
</optional>
<optional>
<element name='allocation'>
<ref name='scaledInteger'/>
</element>
</optional>
</interleave>
</define>
<define name='permissions'>
<optional>
<element name='permissions'>
<interleave>
<element name='mode'>
<ref name='octalMode'/>
</element>
<element name='owner'>
<ref name='unsignedInt'/>
</element>
<element name='group'>
<ref name='unsignedInt'/>
</element>
<optional>
<element name='label'>
<text/>
</element>
</optional>
</interleave>
</element>
</optional>
</define>
<define name='timestamps'>
<optional>
<element name='timestamps'>
<interleave>
<optional>
<element name='atime'>
<ref name='timestamp'/>
</element>
</optional>
<optional>
<element name='btime'>
<ref name='timestamp'/>
</element>
</optional>
<optional>
<element name='ctime'>
<ref name='timestamp'/>
</element>
</optional>
<optional>
<element name='mtime'>
<ref name='timestamp'/>
</element>
</optional>
</interleave>
</element>
</optional>
</define>
<define name='timestamp'>
<data type='string'>
<param name="pattern">[0-9]+(\.[0-9]{0,9})?</param>
</data>
</define>
<define name='target'>
<element name='target'>
<interleave>
<optional>
<element name='path'>
<choice>
<data type='anyURI'/>
<ref name='absFilePath'/>
</choice>
</element>
</optional>
<ref name='format'/>
<ref name='permissions'/>
<ref name='timestamps'/>
<optional>
<ref name='encryption'/>
</optional>
<optional>
<ref name='compat'/>
</optional>
<optional>
<element name='nocow'>
<empty/>
</element>
</optional>
<optional>
<ref name='fileFormatFeatures'/>
</optional>
</interleave>
</element>
</define>
<define name='backingStore'>
<element name='backingStore'>
<interleave>
<element name='path'>
<ref name='absFilePath'/>
</element>
<ref name='format'/>
<ref name='permissions'/>
</interleave>
</element>
</define>
<define name='source'>
<element name='source'>
<zeroOrMore>
<ref name='sourcedev'/>
</zeroOrMore>
</element>
</define>
<define name='sourcedev'>
<element name='device'>
<attribute name='path'>
<ref name='absFilePath'/>
</attribute>
<choice>
<empty/>
<ref name='devextents'/>
</choice>
</element>
</define>
<define name='devextents'>
<oneOrMore>
<element name='extent'>
<attribute name='start'>
<ref name='unsignedLong'/>
</attribute>
<attribute name='end'>
<ref name='unsignedLong'/>
</attribute>
</element>
</oneOrMore>
</define>
<define name='formatdev'>
<choice>
<value>none</value>
<value>auto</value>
<value>ext2</value>
<value>ext3</value>
<value>ext4</value>
<value>ufs</value>
<value>iso9660</value>
<value>udf</value>
<value>gfs</value>
<value>gfs2</value>
<value>vfat</value>
<value>hfs+</value>
<value>xfs</value>
<value>ocfs2</value>
</choice>
</define>
<define name='formatfile'>
<choice>
<value>unknown</value>
<ref name='storageFormat'/>
</choice>
</define>
<define name='formatdisk'>
<choice>
<value>none</value>
<value>linux</value>
<value>fat16</value>
<value>fat32</value>
<value>linux-swap</value>
<value>linux-lvm</value>
<value>linux-raid</value>
<value>extended</value>
</choice>
</define>
<define name='format'>
<optional>
<element name='format'>
<attribute name='type'>
<choice>
<ref name='formatfile'/>
<ref name='formatdev'/>
<ref name='formatdisk'/>
</choice>
</attribute>
</element>
</optional>
</define>
</grammar>