[libvirt] RFC filesystem pool proposal description.

Maxim Nestratov mnestratov at virtuozzo.com
Thu Apr 28 17:45:11 UTC 2016


28.04.2016 20:29, Daniel P. Berrange пишет:

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 07:57:14PM +0300, Olga Krishtal wrote:
>> In this proposal description we would like to introduce a separate pool
>> type:fspool. Fspool provides and manages filesystems.
>> Below are listed possible examples of fspool, depending on source type:
>> volume, directory or network.
> I'm struggling a little to understand what the overal purpose is
> here. Can you step back a level and describe the overall problem
> you're facing and what your use cases / goals are for this proposal.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel

The main purpose of this is to have a generic API to manage filesystems 
similar to storage API and be able to use these filesystems in domain 
XMLs defining containers.
So ,it is a kind of abstraction of filesystem sources and backends. Also 
there can be some indirect benefits but they are not the aim.

Maxim




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