[Libvir] Proposal for the storage API (for discussion only)

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 11:05:30AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 09:53:27AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >>>Using structures in the public API is not in keeping with the rest of
> >>>the libvirt APIs. We should be using XML for the main metadata 
> >>>description
> >>>of volumes & pools.
> >>No, that doesn't make sense.  XML for an API is a hack.  It's hard to 
> >
> >  I disagree with you. XML is perfectly suitable for descriptions,
> >especially when you need extendability and you can't control the future 
> >range
> >of extensions. It's not proper for 'runtime' operations, but as a way to
> >describe complex structures I find it fills its role perfectly.
> 
> These are not complex structures.  It's a list of volumes, and each 
> volume has 3 or 4 attributes (name, total size, free space, and a few 
> flags).

They are not complex /currently/ because they are missing a lot of the 
metadata we will need for a complete solution.


Dan.
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