Re: [Libvir] PATCH: 0/16: Storage management APIs
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:28:29AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
The patch series that follows provides storage management APIs for
dealing
with local directories, local filesystems, remote filesystems, logical
volumes (LVM), disk partitioning, and iSCSI. It will also soon support
SCSI host adapters (including NPIV).
I'll include comments inline with each patch. The final patch in the
series also provides a 'storage.html' page for the website giving a fairly
friendly overview of the storage pool types and their associated XML
examples.
Although included here, the one API i really don't like is the one for
discovery virConnectDiscoverStoragePools, since its API is not flexible
enough in terms of metadata it accepts. I will probably just leave this
out next time around, since its not critical for the core functionality
and can thus be added later.
Also TBD is a way to format a filesystem on a volume, and how to clone
an existing volume, and take a snapshot. These things can all be added
at a later date.
Finally it does not include the async job support. This is also best added
once the core code is merged.
I've just sent out updates of the patch series, which I believe includs all
the bug fixes & suggestions raised in this thread - there were alot of replies
so there's a possibly i've missed one or two comments, but most should be
there.
The storage_{driver,conf,backend} and all backends have been re-formated to
keep under 80 columns, with only a handful of exceptions where I didn't want
to wrap static constant strings.
All the new strings are marked for translations so make syntax-check passes.
Format strings on virReportError are now correct - gcc annotation picked up
a few bugs. The inclusion of bare 'errno' is mostly removed.
And all the other coments...
The patches should apply cleanly to today's CVS.
For convenience you can grab them all directly from
http://hg.berrange.com/libraries/libvirt--storage
NB, only the patches prefixed with 'storage-XXXX' are submitted here.
Dan.
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