On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:57:43AM +0100, Michele Tartara wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:29 AM, 'Aaron Karper' via ganeti-devel
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > For many users the change from uniform disk templates would make their
> > lifes more difficult. Therefore we want to be externally compatible as
> > far as possible.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Aaron Karper <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  doc/design-disks.rst | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/design-disks.rst b/doc/design-disks.rst
> > index 18fb75c..b5d0fab 100644
> > --- a/doc/design-disks.rst
> > +++ b/doc/design-disks.rst
> > @@ -169,6 +169,32 @@ with the instance's disk objects. So in the backend we 
> > will only have to
> >  replace the ``disks`` slot with ``disks_info``.
> >
> >
> > +Supporting the old interface
> > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > +
> > +The current interface is designed with a uniform disk type in mind and
> > +this interface should still be supported to not break tools and
> > +workflows downstream.
> > +
> > +The behaviour is fully compatible for instances with constantly
> > +attached, uniform disks.
> > +
> > +Whenever an operation operates on an instance, the operation will only
> > +consider the disks attached. If the operation is specific to a disk
> > +type, it will only consider disks with that type and ignore the rest
> > +(but throw an error as before if no disk of that type is attached).
> 
> I'm not entirely sure about this. If the operation is specific to a
> disk type, should it operate only on disks of that type, or should it
> operate on the instance only if all the disks attached to that
> instance are of the given type, and error out otherwise?
> Which approch would be less surprising to the user?
> 

You're probably right, the user would be more confused if the instance
is for example "half-backed-up" or something similar.

commit c1f3ebd5cb5ecde5e737c5fad3231b0c0b16cc5e
Author: Aaron Karper <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Nov 18 16:44:01 2014 +0100

    Harsher errors

diff --git a/doc/design-disks.rst b/doc/design-disks.rst
index b5d0fab..e55fa1f 100644
--- a/doc/design-disks.rst
+++ b/doc/design-disks.rst
@@ -181,8 +181,8 @@ attached, uniform disks.
 
 Whenever an operation operates on an instance, the operation will only
 consider the disks attached. If the operation is specific to a disk
-type, it will only consider disks with that type and ignore the rest
-(but throw an error as before if no disk of that type is attached).
+type, it will throw an error if any disks of a type not supported are
+attached.
 
 When setting the disk template of an instance, we convert all currently
 attached disks to that template. This means that all disk types

> > +
> > +When setting the disk template of an instance, we convert all currently
> > +attached disks to that template. This means that all disk types
> > +currently attached must be convertible to the new template.
> > +
> > +Since the disk template as a configuration value is going away, it needs
> > +to be replaced for queries. If the instance has no disks, the
> > +disk_template will be 'diskless', if it has disks of a single type, its
> > +disk_template will be that type, and if it has disks of multiple types,
> > +the new disk template 'mixed' will be returned.
> > +
> > +
> >  Eliminating the disk template from the instance
> >  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > --
> > 2.1.0.rc2.206.gedb03e5
> >
> 
> Thanks,
> Michele
> 
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