[libvirt] [PATCH v2 1/2] Qemu/Gluster: Add Gluster protocol as supported network disk formats.

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Fri Oct 26 13:55:24 UTC 2012


On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 15:49:01 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 26/10/2012 15:38, Jiri Denemark ha scritto:
> >     <host name='example.org' port='6000' transport='tcp'/> or
> >     <host socket='/path/to/sock' transport='unix'/>
> > 
> > However, I don't like this too much either. What if we add a general socket
> > element? In other words,
> > 
> >     <host name='example.org' port='6000' transport='tcp|rdma'/> or
> >     <socket type='unix' path='/path/to/sock'/>
> > 
> > where the type attribute in socket element would determine what other
> > attributes can be used (path for unix sockets). Internally, both elements
> > could be described by a unified socket structure.
> 
> The reason why I suggested reusing <host> is because you could in
> principle have socket as an attribute even for other transports.
> libvirt for example has it as a socket parameter for its ssh transport.
> 
> What about moving the transport to source:
> 
>    <source protocol='gluster' name='Volume2/Image' transport='tcp'>
>      <host name='example.org' port='6000'/>
>    </source>
> 
>    <source protocol='gluster' name='Volume2/Image' transport='unix'>
>      <socket path='/path/to/sock'/>
>    </source>
> 
> where hypothetically an ssh transport could have both host and socket
> sub-elements.

Hmm, I'm starting to think we are making it too complicated :-) Let's see what
other think.

Jirka




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