On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Julien Danjou <julien.dan...@enovance.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > As far as I understand, each Glance app uses its own configuration file. > However, it seems to me that it induces a couple of weird things. > > Today, I started taking a look on images cache and prefetch stuff, and > bumping my head on the wall because something was not working. > Then I discovered that the variable image_cache_enabled was set to true > in glance-api.conf, but was not set at all in glance-prefetcher.conf, > defaulting to false. The same applies for the reaper and the pruner > AFAICS.
Yes, this is a known discrepancy. I believe we will work it out during the work on this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/817570 > It does not seem really obvious and user friendly to set the same > variable in multiple files, and it even seems kind of dangerous and non > sensical, since you can set conflicting values. > > I think that Glance and its different services should only use on file > to be configured, using subsection to configure specific app variable > (service port, host, etc). This is actually how it used to be. :) We split the configuration files a while ago (maybe 6 months?) for a couple reasons, but for the life of me I can't remember what they were. I've cc'd Dan Prince, who I think will remember. Cheers, -jay _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
