On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:29:15PM +0800, Peter Memishian wrote: > there's a tension here between encouraging use of a new feature and > having the system "just do what the admin wants". Some usability > studies might help here.
I agree with this, but I wanted to note that it's not always the admin that is directly responsible for the creation of the link. In the case of Xen, for example, vnics are created by tools that run when a domain is created (which includes an admin asking for a domain to created but also when a domain migrates to a particular physical machine). Here I think that it's clear that having "the system" allocate the link names is the only viable option. Whether that happens in the domain creation tools or the link creation infrastructure is not so important (though see earlier preference). dme.
