According to our documentation the "key" value has the following meaning: "Providing an identifier for the volume which identifies a single volume." The currently used keys for gluster volumes consist of the gluster volume name and file path. This can't be considered unique as a different storage server can serve a volume with the same name. Unfortunately I wasn't able to figure out a way to retrieve the gluster volume UUID which would avoid the possibility of having two distinct keys identifying a single volume. Use the full URI as the key for the volume to avoid the more critical ambiguity problem and document the possible change to UUID. --- Notes: Version 3: - fix the example too, also state that UUID might be used - repost so we don't have yet another release containing this docs/storage.html.in | 8 +++++--- src/storage/storage_backend_gluster.c | 10 ++++++++-- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/storage.html.in b/docs/storage.html.in index 2706bc5..4bbf378 100644 --- a/docs/storage.html.in +++ b/docs/storage.html.in @@ -711,12 +711,14 @@ correspond to the files that can be found when mounting the gluster volume. The <code>name</code> is the path relative to the effective mount specified for the pool; and - the <code>key</code> is a path including the gluster volume - name and any subdirectory specified by the pool.</p> + the <code>key</code> is a string that identifies a single volume + uniquely. Currently the <code>key</code> attribute consists of the + URI of the volume but it may be changed to an UUID of the volume + in the future.</p> <pre> &lt;volume&gt; &lt;name&gt;myfile&lt;/name&gt; - &lt;key&gt;volname/myfile&lt;/key&gt; + &lt;key&gt;gluster://localhost/volname/myfile&lt;/key&gt; &lt;source&gt; &lt;/source&gt; &lt;capacity unit='bytes'&gt;53687091200&lt;/capacity&gt; diff --git a/src/storage/storage_backend_gluster.c b/src/storage/storage_backend_gluster.c index fe92f15..337ddf4 100644 --- a/src/storage/storage_backend_gluster.c +++ b/src/storage/storage_backend_gluster.c @@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ virStorageBackendGlusterSetMetadata(virStorageBackendGlusterStatePtr state, const char *name) { int ret = -1; + char *path = NULL; char *tmp; VIR_FREE(vol->key); @@ -201,12 +202,12 @@ virStorageBackendGlusterSetMetadata(virStorageBackendGlusterStatePtr state, goto cleanup; } - if (virAsprintf(&vol->key, "%s%s%s", state->volname, state->dir, + if (virAsprintf(&path, "%s%s%s", state->volname, state->dir, vol->name) < 0) goto cleanup; tmp = state->uri->path; - if (virAsprintf(&state->uri->path, "/%s", vol->key) < 0) { + if (virAsprintf(&state->uri->path, "/%s", path) < 0) { state->uri->path = tmp; goto cleanup; } @@ -218,9 +219,14 @@ virStorageBackendGlusterSetMetadata(virStorageBackendGlusterStatePtr state, VIR_FREE(state->uri->path); state->uri->path = tmp; + /* the path is unique enough to serve as a volume key */ + if (VIR_STRDUP(vol->key, vol->target.path) < 0) + goto cleanup; + ret = 0; cleanup: + VIR_FREE(path); return ret; } -- 1.9.1