[libvirt] [PATCH 2/3] Format FS pools

[Daniel Veillard]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 04:42:04PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 03:48:24PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 05:58:06PM -0500, David Allan wrote:
> > >  AM_CONDITIONAL([WITH_STORAGE_FS], [test "$with_storage_fs" = "yes"])
> > > diff --git a/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in b/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
> > > index 260505e..a7751b8 100644
> > > --- a/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
> > > +++ b/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
> > > @@ -1053,7 +1053,8 @@ typedef enum {
> > >  typedef enum {
> > >    VIR_STORAGE_POOL_BUILD_NEW  = 0,   /* Regular build from scratch */
> > >    VIR_STORAGE_POOL_BUILD_REPAIR = 1, /* Repair / reinitialize */
> > > -  VIR_STORAGE_POOL_BUILD_RESIZE = 2  /* Extend existing pool */
> > > +  VIR_STORAGE_POOL_BUILD_RESIZE = 2,  /* Extend existing pool */
> > > +  VIR_STORAGE_POOL_CREATE_FORMAT = 3  /* Format filesystem during build */
> > 
> >   Hum, I'm not so sure, CREATE_FORMAT == BUILD_REPAIR + BUILD_RESIZE
> > which after all sounds a plausible combination, I would use different
> > bits in the field, so set VIR_STORAGE_POOL_CREATE_FORMAT to 4.
> > 
> >   But now we need to cope with EXT3/EXT4/XFS variants, they should
> > probably be allocated on separate bits even if they are mutually
> > exclusive
> 
> This extra flag is causing the FS pool to diverge from semantics of the
> other pool types. As per the comment inthe header, the 'VIR_STORAGE_POOL_BUILD_NEW'
> is defined to be a full initialize of the pool from scratch. For logical pool
> this pvcreate + vgcreates the data. For disk backend this writes a new empty
> partition table label. For FS pools, this should be formatting the filesystem.
> 
> The type of filesystem is actually visible via the XML, so we don't need to
> worry about ext3/4/etc in this context.

  Yeah, after checking a bit more, I agree :-)

Daniel

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