[Engine-devel] alias in disk instead of name
The problem we caused by using alias in disk instead of name is break of search-by-name
paradigm
in engine.search dialect, not sure why we do not want forcing disk name to be unique [1],
but lack of "name" in disk search is does not look good in my view.
thoughts?
[1] can be easily achieved via appropriate can-do-action verification.
background:
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On 10/15/2012 02:09 PM, Einav Cohen wrote:
we didn't exactly renamed "name" to "alias";
"name" is an automatic identifier of the disk, which is: "Disk n",
n=internal drive mapping; "alias" is a *user-defined*
identifier.
IIRC, once we understood that we need a user-defined identifier for the disk business
entity, we indeed had in mind re-using "name", however, the "name"
field in other
business entities is unique across the system, and we didn't want
the disk user-defined identifier to be unique, so we preferred to not (re)use the term
"name" and came up
with "alias", to avoid confusion.
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Pasternak" <mpastern(a)redhat.com>
> To: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen(a)redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 1:58:26 PM
> Subject: alias in disk instead of name
>
> hi,
>
> can you remind me why did we renamed name to alias in disk?
>
> --
>
> Michael Pasternak
> RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D
>
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Michael Pasternak
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