[libvirt] [PATCH v2] storage: vz storage pool support

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Thu Dec 8 19:57:00 UTC 2016


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>>
>> Compare that to NFS, which uses mount which is included in well every
>> distro I can think of. That's a big difference. Also let's face it, NFS
>> has been the essential de facto goto tool to access remote storage for a
>> long time. Personally, I'd rather see the NFS code split out of the
>> *_fs.c backend, but I don't have the desire/time to do it - so it stays
>> as is.
> 
> But netfs pool type is not only for NFS, it also can be used to provide
> cifs and FUSE glusterfs mounts. These three just as vstorage have very
> little difference from local filesystems from pool POV after they are 
> mounted that's why I guess they implemented so tightly.
> 

Sure and they all pass through virStorageBackendFileSystemMount in order
to MOUNT something essentially via the mount command and usage of
specific qualifiers.

Which differs from using VSTORAGE_MOUNT a utility not provided on every
distro AFAIK.

John






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