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?