On 02/26/12 15:31, Rasto Levrinc wrote:
> I think, I'm never bikeshedding. :) It is a mirror issue but the "iSCSI
> target" in every short description is redundant,

Which RA are you looking at? iSCSITarget supports 8 different
parameters; 4 of them have "iSCSI target" in their shortdesc. That's
hardly "every short description".

> since they all belong
> to the iSCSI target RA, and because the long descriptions are cut in the

Now what, are you talking about longdesc or shortdesc?

> display, then they all look like "iSCSI target..." and you must mouse
> over to actually see what they are. I am exaggerating a bit here. So I
> propose as general style rule, don't include RA name to the short
> descriptions.
> 
>>
>>> 3. defaults are computed in this way that they may be different in
>>> different cluster nodes and may change after the cluster is configured,
>>> which is not very useful in my opinion.
>>
>> That was my way of trying to provide a "reasonable" default across
>> distros. The alternative would be that every distro packager would
>> have to patch the RA to provide the proper default for their platform
>> -- which would be tgt for RHEL/CentOS, iet for SLES 11 and then lio
>> for SLES 11 SP2+ (I think), undefined for Debian. You get the picture.
>> I think the existing way of figuring out the defaults is saner, if not
>> perfect. Feel free to convince me otherwise, though.
> 
> 
> You are right about that. The problem I am having is, that they are two
> types of defaults, that you can't distinguish just by looking in the
> meta-data.
> 
> The first is that are used by RA, so you don't have to define 20
> parameters, only if you want use something other than the default. This
> is the most common use.
> 
> The second type is a suggested value, that is advertised as a default,
> but unless it is stored like normal value in the cib, it is not used by
> the RA.
> 
> The third type is a combination from the two above, like iSCSITarget.
> 
> I am solving it by keeping track of the RAs, what kind of defaults they
> are using for now, but I'd preferred that there was some consistency in
> it.

Patches welcome.

Florian

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