----- Original Message ----- > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Andrew Cathrow" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 5:15:51 PM > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Geert Jansen" <[email protected]> > > > To: "Ayal Baron" <[email protected]> > > > Cc: "Andrew Cathrow" <[email protected]>, > > > [email protected], > > > "Simon Grinberg" <[email protected]>, "Saggi > > > Mizrahi" <[email protected]>, "Ori Liel" <[email protected]>, > > > "Yair Zaslavsky" <[email protected]>, "Miki > > > Kenneth" <[email protected]>, "Einav Cohen" <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 10:10:37 AM > > > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] PosixFS: GUI mock-ups have been > > > updated > > > > > > > > > On 05/10/2012 09:46 PM, Ayal Baron wrote: > > > > > > > device is what is being mounted and in the case of NFS is > > > > server:path > > > > > > > > There is a reason why we termed it PosixFS and not SharedFS and > > > > that users can specify local devices/FS's (and there is no > > > > reason > > > > to limit it). > > > > > > > > Note that if user defines a local FS and adds 2 hosts to the > > > > Posix > > > > FS DC then 1 host will be non-op > > > > > > Why? This makes some very interesting use cases a lot more > > > difficult > > > to > > > set up. We should allow multiple hosts in a PosixFS data center, > > > and > > > it > > > should be the user's responsibility that if he adds multiple > > > hosts, > > > that > > > each of those see the same data. > > > > > > I *think* we're saying the same thing. > > If you have multiple hosts in a datacenter with PosixFS then it's > > your responsibility to make sure that they can all see the same > > storage > > +1. > I believe that Ayal didn't mean that we should limit the number of > Hosts in a PosixFS DC to 1; all he said is that in case the user has > defined more than 1 Host in a PosixFS DC and the PosixFS storage > domain in it happens to be a local one (i.e. local on one of the > Hosts in the DC), all other Hosts will become Non Operational > (simply because they won't be able to reach that storage domain).
Correct. It was a disclaimer that we do not prevent user from doing stupid things. > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > Geert > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Engine-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel
