Removing a quorum child node with x-blockdev-change results in a quorum driver state that cannot be recreated with create options because it would require a list with gaps. This causes trouble in at least .bdrv_refresh_filename().
Document this problem so that we won't accidentally mark the command stable without having addressed it. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <be...@igalia.com> --- qapi/block-core.json | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json index a8cdbc300b..e94a6881b2 100644 --- a/qapi/block-core.json +++ b/qapi/block-core.json @@ -3918,6 +3918,10 @@ # does not support all kinds of operations, all kinds of children, nor # all block drivers. # +# FIXME Removing children from a quorum node means introducing gaps in the +# child indices. This cannot be represented in the 'children' list of +# BlockdevOptionsQuorum, as returned by .bdrv_refresh_filename(). +# # Warning: The data in a new quorum child MUST be consistent with that of # the rest of the array. # -- 2.13.6
