[libvirt] [PATCH 1/1] Add a simple pool type for multipath devices

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 05:25:37PM -0400, David Allan wrote:
> This pool type contains volumes for the multipath devices that are present on the host.  It does not (yet) support any sort of multipath configuration, so that aspect of system administration must still be done at host build time.
[...]
> +if test "$with_storage_mpath" = "check"; then
> +   with_storage_mpath=yes
> +
> +   AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([WITH_STORAGE_MPATH], 1,
> +     [whether mpath backend for storage driver is enabled])
> +fi
> +AM_CONDITIONAL([WITH_STORAGE_MPATH], [test "$with_storage_mpath" = "yes"])
> +
> +if test "$with_storage_mpath" = "yes"; then
> +   DEVMAPPER_REQUIRED=0.0
> +   DEVMAPPER_CFLAGS=
> +   DEVMAPPER_LIBS=
> +   PKG_CHECK_MODULES(DEVMAPPER, devmapper >= $DEVMAPPER_REQUIRED,
> +    [], [
> +    AC_MSG_ERROR(
> +    [You must install device-mapper-devel >= $DEVMAPPER_REQUIRED to compile libvirt])
> +    ])
> +fi
> +AC_SUBST([DEVMAPPER_CFLAGS])
> +AC_SUBST([DEVMAPPER_LIBS])

  Hum, the way I read this is that f you give no specific option to
configure, check turns into a with_storage_mpath" = "yes" and then if
device-mapper-devel is not available configure fails, while I would
expect check to not fail in that case and switch with_storage_mpath to
no , I afraid this can be confusing, or I'm the one confused :-)

[...]
> +++ b/src/storage_backend_mpath.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,344 @@
> +/*
> + * storage_backend_mpath.c: storage backend for multipath handling
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Red Hat, Inc.
> + * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Daniel P. Berrange
[...]
> + * Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange redhat com>

  Hum, really ? please update :-) or clarify ! and extend to 2009


[...]
> +++ b/src/storage_backend_mpath.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
> +/*
> + * storage_backend_scsi.h: storage backend for SCSI handling
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Red Hat, Inc.
> + * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Daniel P. Berrange
[...]
> + * Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange redhat com>
> + */

  To be fixed too including name and description

Daniel

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