Re: [ovirt-devel] Runtime dir creation and FHS
On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 02:17:42PM +0200, Fabian Deutsch wrote:
Hey,
while looking at vdsm/vdsmd_init_common.sh.in I notice that some
directories are created at runtime (when the service comes up in this
case).
I wonder if there is a specific reason why these dirs are created at
runtime, and not at installation time?
Creating on daemon startup time make sure that the directory is
recreated/adjusted if it was mangaled by an evil admin. But that's not a
good excuse. I don't think there was a good one.
With my Node glasses on, it would be very convenient if those
directories could be created at (rpm) installation time, because this
means that they will be part of the image which is created.
If created at runtime, then we need to modify the tree during runtime,
which ain't very nice.
Another question is if the top-level /rhev dir could be moved to some
subdir, i.e. /run/vdsmd/mounts - to better suite the FHS.
it should move to somewhere standard, and the "rhev" trademark should be
dropped. It could happen on ovirt-4.0 when we break backward
compatibility. But that's easier said than done.
How about opening 2 infra bugs for 4.0 for these?