[Libguestfs] [PATCH 1/3] New API: mdadm-create for creating MD devices.

[Wanlong Gao]

On 11/16/2011 06:07 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 03:29:45PM +0800, Wanlong Gao wrote:
>> On 11/11/2011 08:58 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>
>>> From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com>
>>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong at cn.fujitsu.com>
> 
> Thanks for looking at these patches.  If you (or Fujitsu) have any
> other needs for libguestfs, I'd be more than happy to discuss them.


Yeah, Thanks a lot Richard.

> 
> [...]
>>> +    if ((chunk & 1023) != 0) {
>>> +      reply_with_error ("chunk size must be a multiple of 1024 bytes");
>>
>> I'd like to make the 1024 to a macro, what do you thinks so?
> 
> I wasn't sure if you meant (a) remove the use of the constant here and
> replace it with a macro, or (b) allow users to specify other chunk
> sizes (eg. less than 1024 bytes, or not a multiple of 1024 bytes).
> 
> As background: The reason we do this check is because the 'mdadm
> --chunk' option only allows the size to be specified in K.  We like to
> use bytes in the libguestfs API [1].  We can only let users specify
> multiples of 1024 here.  It may be in future that mdadm would allow
> chunk sizes which are not a multiple of 1024 bytes, but it doesn't
> right now.
> 
> (a) is possible, but (b) is not possible right now.


I meant (a) just for the code readable and the future maintenance?

-Wanlong Gao

> 
> Rich.
> 
> [1] That is, we like to use bytes in new APIs, but we weren't very
> consistent on this point in the early days.
>