Re: Back end volume names in KVM

2013-10-11 Thread Marcus Sorensen
Done. Tested root/data disks for CLVM, local, NFS. On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Marcus Sorensen wrote: > Yeah, existing volumes have a path thats already set in stone. It would only > concern new volumes. > > It could cause problems down the line if people get used to them matching > and deci

Re: Back end volume names in KVM

2013-10-09 Thread Marcus Sorensen
Yeah, existing volumes have a path thats already set in stone. It would only concern new volumes. It could cause problems down the line if people get used to them matching and decide to use uuid and path interchangeably. They're not by default identical though since the path usually contains the d

Re: Back end volume names in KVM

2013-10-09 Thread Mike Tutkowski
OK, now I'm really replying to this e-mail thread. :) I think this is a good idea, Marcus. It gets rid of an unnecessary translation step. On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Mike Tutkowski < mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > I'm sorry! > > I sent this e-mail to the wrong discussion thread. :

Re: Back end volume names in KVM

2013-10-09 Thread Mike Tutkowski
I'm sorry! I sent this e-mail to the wrong discussion thread. :) On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Mike Tutkowski < mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > Yeah, I'm not really clear how the snapshot strategy works if you have > multiple vendors that implement that interface either. > > > On Wed,

Re: Back end volume names in KVM

2013-10-09 Thread Koushik Das
On 10-Oct-2013, at 9:27 AM, Marcus Sorensen wrote: > Does anyone have any reservations about changing the volume identifier in > KVM's volume creation command to be the uuid of the volume? Currently for > new volumes it generates a random uuid and passes that back to be stored in > the database.

Re: Back end volume names in KVM

2013-10-09 Thread Prasanna Santhanam
+1 - happens in lots of places in our code where a random-uuid associates with a physical resource's uuid. Will this will happen only for new volumes? Old volumes can still be listed and found using the old method? I'm specifically concerned about upgraded systems. On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 11:05:4

Re: Back end volume names in KVM

2013-10-09 Thread Mike Tutkowski
Yeah, I'm not really clear how the snapshot strategy works if you have multiple vendors that implement that interface either. On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Marcus Sorensen wrote: > Does anyone have any reservations about changing the volume identifier in > KVM's volume creation command to be