[libvirt] [PATCH 6/6] Snapshot virsh implementation.

Paul Jenner psj at familyjenner.co.uk
Fri Apr 9 19:54:09 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 10:43 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 08:00:01PM +0100, Paul Jenner wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 21:46 -0400, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > @@ -8288,6 +8731,14 @@ static const vshCmdDef commands[] = {
> > >      {"vcpupin", cmdVcpupin, opts_vcpupin, info_vcpupin},
> > >      {"version", cmdVersion, NULL, info_version},
> > >      {"vncdisplay", cmdVNCDisplay, opts_vncdisplay, info_vncdisplay},
> > > +
> > > +    {"snapshot-create", cmdSnapshotCreate, opts_snapshot_create, info_snapshot_create},
> > > +    {"snapshot-current", cmdSnapshotCurrent, opts_snapshot_current, info_snapshot_current},
> > > +    {"snapshot-delete", cmdSnapshotDelete, opts_snapshot_delete, info_snapshot_delete},
> > > +    {"snapshot-dumpxml", cmdSnapshotDumpXML, opts_snapshot_dumpxml, info_snapshot_dumpxml},
> > > +    {"snapshot-list", cmdSnapshotList, opts_snapshot_list, info_snapshot_list},
> > > +    {"revert-to-snapshot", cmdDomainRevertToSnapshot, opts_revert_to_snapshot, info_revert_to_snapshot},
> > > +
> > >      {NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL}
> > >  };
> > 
> > All the new virsh commands for snapshot management follow the convention
> > of snapshot- prefix (like similar pool-, vol-, net- command prefixes)
> > except for revert-to-snapshot. From a virsh usability perspective, would
> > it make sense to rename this command snapshot-revert? I appreciate that
> > does not capture what the command does as well as revert-to-snapshot but
> > I think this may be a reasonable trade-off for usability and users
> > finding the command easily.
> 
> I agree, this should be called snapshot-revert

If there is consensus, would someone be willing to submit a patch to
change this before 0.8.0?

Thanks,

Paul





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