Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] storage: Adjustments to disk backend to use stateDir

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1138516 The disk backend uses 'parted' in order to create and delete partitions on the disk for use in the pool. At creation time, one can specify a specific "name" for the volume as well as a specific volume target format type. The name and volume target type "survive" only as long as the pool is not refreshed or the libvirtd not restarted/reloaded. The action immediately prior to the calling all the backend refreshPool API's is to clear out all the existing volumes from the pool. The theory being the refresh will be able to find all elements of the pool using some mechanism. The disk refreshPool backend will use the libvirt_parthelper utility to read the partitions found on the disk in order to regenerate the elements of the pool Unfortunately, since the "name" and target format type cannot be encoded, the data is now lost and the defaults are used (for the "name", the partition path is used and the default of 'none' is used for the target format type). This patch solves this by adding the ability to save the XML generated at create time into the stateDir and then use that during the refreshPool backend API call to restore the specific fields that are lost.