Re: storage magic (was Re: Patch for setup_harddisks to use it for Xen-Domains "without disk")

2007-11-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Michael, On Thursday 29 November 2007 00:55, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > No, it's never too late, we're in an open world :-) Great! :) How about storage setup? or setup_storage, which would be similar to setup_harddisk but also indicate that it can do more than setup harddiscs :) regards,

Re: storage magic (was Re: Patch for setup_harddisks to use it for Xen-Domains "without disk")

2007-11-28 Thread Henning Sprang
Michael Tautschnig wrote: > [...] > - does not matter all that much as this is only an implementation detail of > FAI Not a too bad argument, also :) Henning

Re: storage magic (was Re: Patch for setup_harddisks to use it for Xen-Domains "without disk")

2007-11-28 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > Other ideas: "setup harddisk ng", "storage setup" > > Hmm, the last describes it's goals and work best - if storage is > something remotely, we are not setting up a harddisk, and it is no magic > but hard calculation... (no, we shouldn't call it "hard storage setup > calculator and setu

Re: storage magic (was Re: Patch for setup_harddisks to use it for Xen-Domains "without disk")

2007-11-28 Thread Henning Sprang
Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Saturday 24 November 2007 19:28, Maximilian Wilhelm wrote: >>> But luckily, Storage Magic isn't far anymore... >> I'll have a look at it. >> The word magic is kind of 'warning'... > > I agree. I liked the old name, setup harddisks 2, better. > It's more descripti

Re: storage magic (was Re: Patch for setup_harddisks to use it for Xen-Domains "without disk")

2007-11-28 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Hi, > > On Saturday 24 November 2007 19:28, Maximilian Wilhelm wrote: > > > But luckily, Storage Magic isn't far anymore... > > I'll have a look at it. > > The word magic is kind of 'warning'... > > I agree. I liked the old name, setup harddisks 2, better. > It's more descriptive, less cryptic.

storage magic (was Re: Patch for setup_harddisks to use it for Xen-Domains "without disk")

2007-11-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 24 November 2007 19:28, Maximilian Wilhelm wrote: > > But luckily, Storage Magic isn't far anymore... > I'll have a look at it. > The word magic is kind of 'warning'... I agree. I liked the old name, setup harddisks 2, better. It's more descriptive, less cryptic. But I guess its

Re: Patch for setup_harddisks to use it for Xen-Domains "without disk"

2007-11-24 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > > The downside of setup harddisks is, that probably nobody will add > > patches to it anymore... > > Why not? > [...] For the simple reason that Storage Magic is intended to be the successor of setup_harddisks, so I guess we won't integrate any new features into setup_harddisks anymor

Re: Patch for setup_harddisks to use it for Xen-Domains "without disk"

2007-11-24 Thread Maximilian Wilhelm
Am Saturday, den 24 November hub Henning Sprang folgendes in die Tasten: > Maximilian Wilhelm wrote: > >> Why not just use the solution for this described in the Wiki? That works > >> without changing the FAI code. > > Because I have to edit a script each time I want to setup a Dom-U. > > Besides

Re: Patch for setup_harddisks to use it for Xen-Domains "without disk"

2007-11-23 Thread Henning Sprang
Maximilian Wilhelm wrote: >> Why not just use the solution for this described in the Wiki? That works >> without changing the FAI code. > > Because I have to edit a script each time I want to setup a Dom-U. > Besides that you then have two ways of configuring disk stuff. True, that's a downside.

Re: Patch for setup_harddisks to use it for Xen-Domains "without disk"

2007-11-23 Thread Maximilian Wilhelm
Am Saturday, den 24 November hub Henning Sprang folgendes in die Tasten: Hi! > > The attached patch adds simple support for Xen Dom-Us which don't have > > "a disk" as such (read: Not /dev/xvd[a-z] device) but get every > > "partition" as a single /dev/xvd[a-z][0-9]+ device. > Why not just use t

Re: Patch for setup_harddisks to use it for Xen-Domains "without disk"

2007-11-23 Thread Henning Sprang
Maximilian Wilhelm wrote: > Hi! > > The attached patch adds simple support for Xen Dom-Us which don't have > "a disk" as such (read: Not /dev/xvd[a-z] device) but get every > "partition" as a single /dev/xvd[a-z][0-9]+ device. Why not just use the solution for this described in the Wiki? That wor

Patch for setup_harddisks to use it for Xen-Domains "without disk"

2007-11-23 Thread Maximilian Wilhelm
Hi! The attached patch adds simple support for Xen Dom-Us which don't have "a disk" as such (read: Not /dev/xvd[a-z] device) but get every "partition" as a single /dev/xvd[a-z][0-9]+ device. setup_harddisks now does not care about disk sizes and partion tables anymore when class XENU is set and