Upgrade mechanism
Yaniv Bronheim
ybronhei at redhat.com
Tue Aug 27 18:54:52 UTC 2013
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Assaf Muller" <amuller at redhat.com>
> To: "arch" <arch at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 3:00:35 PM
> Subject: Upgrade mechanism
>
> While implementing a new form of network configuration persistence I needed a
> way to run 'upgrade code'.
> That is, I need the ability to run a piece of code exactly once, on the first
> boot of VDSM.
>
> My use case is related to unified network persistence - We intend to persist
> network information
> in a new format, and on the first run of a new VDSM that contains unified
> network persistence code,
> it needs to inspect the kernel state and construct the data in the new
> format. From then on,
> it will be persisted and updated when the setupNetworks verb is received. The
> upgrade code, then,
> needs to run only once.
>
> Instead of implementing a unique and custom solution I thought to introduce a
> very simple and flexible
> upgrade mechanism which suits my needs.
> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/17726/
>
> And the following patch is the actual upgrade code, which demonstrates how
> the upgrade mechanism is used:
> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/18425/
>
As I commented on the patchset, I recommend to move all this logic to vdsm-tool verb
> Clarification: This upgrade mechanism is not related to yum upgrade in any
> way.
>
> Infra guys (And everyone else) - Any feedback is welcome. Thanks!
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