Done. Tested root/data disks for CLVM, local, NFS.

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com> 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 decide to use uuid and path interchangeably. They're not by default
> identical though since the path usually contains the directory and
> filename/uuid (at least for qcow2, I think LVM just has the logical volume
> uuid as path).
>
> On Oct 9, 2013 11:21 PM, "Prasanna Santhanam" <t...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>> +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 11:05:48PM -0600, Mike Tutkowski wrote:
>> > 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 <shadow...@gmail.com>
>> > 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. From an admin perspective, the only way to link a volume
>> > > on
>> > > the back end (be it a qcow2 image or an LVM volume) to one as reported
>> > > is
>> > > to look in the DB and see what this 'secondary uuid' is and look for
>> > > THAT
>> > > as the filename/image name on the back end. It would simply remove a
>> > > layer
>> > > of translating uuid to another hidden uuid to get file/volume name.
>> > >
>> > > It shouldn't disrupt or change current volumes, just new ones.
>> > >
>> > > The only caveat I can think of so far is if we wanted multiple
>> > > files/images
>> > > on the back end to map to one volume, but I don't see that as a
>> > > blocker
>> > > since it would probably have lots of other implications to the
>> > > tracking
>> > > volume objects.
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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