[Engine-devel] Floating Disk feature description

Einav Cohen ecohen at redhat.com
Fri Feb 3 12:01:43 UTC 2012


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 12:47:35 PM
> 
> On 02/02/2012 05:13 PM, Miki Kenneth wrote:
> >>> If they are the same, then please use the term 'image'.
> >>
> >> As I said - no technical problem doing that, however in the engine
> >> we
> >> use the term "Disk" and the current name of the relevant VMs
> >> sub-tab
> >> is "Disks" and the name of the new main tab would be "Disks" (or
> >> "Virtual Disks"), etc. - so it will be strange to call the feature
> >> "floating image" when "floating" is going to be column in a GUI
> >> grid
> >> titled "Disks".
> >> I assume that you can also find explanations of why using the term
> >> "Disk" is confusing and "Image" is better; I am just genuinely not
> >> sure what is less confusing.
> > This is inconsistency I agree, but I think that from the User
> > perspective we should stick with either Disk or Drive. In any OS
> > of a Server/Desktop the term rather Disk or Drives.
> 
> I'd go with what the REST API calls them right now, as changing it
> would
> be the painful part.

REST API uses the term "disks", so I think that the current terminology for this feature should remain as is (it is also consistent with Miki's argument).

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