Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Allows for a <description> tag for domains

2009/9/30 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com&gt;: >  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523639 > > feature request which makes sense to me, the simple patch attached > seems to be sufficient, one can define and have the description back > in the dump. Doesn't try to keep the location of the tag, it always > get serialized after <uuid>. > The only drawbacks I can think of are: >  - others XML formats may require the same, but honnestly it's trivial >  - machine generated description (for example if the history log of >    a domain gets stored there) could grow a lot and I wonder if we >    have a hard limit on the size when transmitting xml descriptions Such a machine generated description would contradict the intention of Rubin Simons for this description entry. IMHO this description entry should be used for user-provided descriptions only. For any other purpose (like a history log) another entry should be added.