[ovirt-devel] short recap of last vdsm call (15.4.2014)

[ybronhei]

On 04/30/2014 04:22 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 02:54:29PM +0300, ybronhei wrote:
>> hey,
>>
>> somehow we missed the summary of this call, and few "big" issues
>> were raised there. so i would like to share it with all and hear
>> more comments
>>
>> - task id in http header - allows engine to initiate calls with id
>> instead of following vdsm response - federico already started this
>> work, and this is mandatory for live merge feature afaiu.
>
> Adam, Federico, may I revisit this question from another angle?
>
> Why does Vdsm needs to know live-merge's task id?
> As far as I understand, (vmid, disk id) are enough to identify a live
> merge process.
>
> If we do not have a task id, we do not need to worry on how to pass it,
> and where to persist it.
>
engine must polls somehow the process (/task) status to know when to end 
the action (with success or fail) and release locks

-- 
Yaniv Bronhaim.