Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 0/7] fspool: backend directory

Hi everyone, we would like to propose the first implementation of fspool with directory backend. Filesystem pools is a facility to manage filesystems resources similar to how storage pools manages volume resources. Furthermore new API follows storage API closely where it makes sense. Uploading/downloading operations are not defined yet as it is not obvious how to make it properly. I guess we can use some kind of tar to make a stream from a filesystem. Please share you thoughts on this particular issue. The patchset provides 'dir' backend which simply expose directories in some directory in host filesystem. The virsh commands are provided too. So it is ready to play with, just replace 'pool' in xml descriptions and virsh commands to 'fspool' and 'volume' to 'item'. Examle and usage: Define: virsh -c qemu:///system fspool-define-as fs_pool_name dir --target /path/on/host Build virsh -c qemu:///system fspool-build fs_pool_name Start virsh -c qemu:///system fspool-start fs_pool_name Look inside virsh -c qemu:///system fspool-list (--all) fspool_name Fspool called POOL, on the host fs uses /fs_driver to hold items. virsh -c qemu:///system fspool-dumpxml POOL <fspool type='dir'> <name>POOL</name> <uuid>c57c9d7c-b1d5-4c45-ba9c-67f03d4da160</uuid> <capacity unit='bytes'>733722615808</capacity> <allocation unit='bytes'>1331486720</allocation> <available unit='bytes'>534810800128</available> <source> </source> <target> <path>/fs_driver</path> <permissions> <mode>0755</mode> <owner>0</owner> <group>0</group> </permissions> </target> </fspool> virsh -c qemu:///system fspool-info POOL Name: POOL UUID: c57c9d7c-b1d5-4c45-ba9c-67f03d4da160 State: running Persistent: yes Autostart: no autostart Capacity: 683.33 GiB Allocation: 1.24 GiB Available: 498.08 GiB virsh -c qemu+unix:///system item-list POOL Name Path ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ item1 /fs_driver/item1 item10 /fs_driver/item10 item11 /fs_driver/item11 item12 /fs_driver/item12 item15 /fs_driver/item15 Fspool of directory type is some directory on host fs that holds items (subdirs). Example of usage for items: virsh -c vz+unix:///system item-create-as POOL item1 1g - create item virsh -c qemu+unix:///system item-dumpxml item1 POOL <fsitem> <name>item1</name> <key>/fs_driver/item1</key> <source> fspoo ='POOL'

</source> <capacity unit='bytes'>0</capacity> <allocation unit='bytes'>0</allocation> <target> <format type='dir'/> </target> </fsitem> virsh -c qemu+unix:///system item-info item1 POOL Name: item1 Type: dir Capacity: 683.33 GiB Allocation: 634.87 MiB Autostart: no autostart Capacity: 683.33 GiB Allocation: 1.24 GiB Available: 498.08 GiB virsh -c qemu+unix:///system item-list POOL Name Path ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ item1 /fs_driver/item1 item10 /fs_driver/item10 item11 /fs_driver/item11 item12 /fs_driver/item12 item15 /fs_driver/item15