[libvirt] [PATCH] storage pool discovery

David Lively dlively at virtualiron.com
Mon Aug 25 14:33:45 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 16:15 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:58:54AM -0400, David Lively wrote:
> > As long as we're on the subject of naming (and before it's too late),
> > it's been bothering me that we keep calling this "storage pool
> > discovery".  To me, "storage source discovery" seems more accurate
> > (because they're not pools until we define libvirt pools based on the
> > sources).  So I'd prefer renaming the various *Discover[Storage]Pools*
> > functions (and support structs) introduced in this patch to
> > *Discover[Storage]Sources*.  I was just sticking with the
> > originally-proposed names to avoid confusion.  What do you all think?
> 
> That sounds like a reasonable idea to me.

[Sorry to harp on the naming issue.  But names are important, and we
can't change them once they're in the API ...]

After making the change I suggested above, it now feels a little strange
because "Pool" is gone from the name.  I'm starting to think
"*Discover[Storage]PoolSources*" is the only good choice.  It's rather
long, but makes it clear we're talking about storage pool sources (as
opposed to "storage sources", which feels a little ambiguous, or
"storage pools" which isn't accurate since they're not (yet) pools).

Sound ok?

Dave




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