[libvirt] [PATCH v3 21/21] blkiotune: allow <node major='' minor=''/> in place of <path>

Cedric Bosdonnat cbosdonnat at suse.com
Tue Feb 11 16:40:21 UTC 2014


Hi Daniel,

On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 14:55 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> I realize this is helping the conversion of existing configs, but
> personally I'm pretty loathe to add this syntax. With device paths
> it is possible to have stable paths ie using /dev/disk/by*. With
> major/minor the XML configuration is not portable across hosts or
> even stable  within a host since major numbers are fairly arbitrarily
> assigned with hotpluggable SCSI or networked iSCSI.
> 
> Personally I'd list this as one of the things an admin has to fixup
> manually post conversion.

Ok, then let's drop that patch from the serie: it was just a way to
communicate on that topic ;)

--
Cedric




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