[Engine-devel] Floating Disk feature description

[Itamar Heim]

On 02/02/2012 05:13 PM, Miki Kenneth wrote:
>>> If they are the same, then please use the term 'image'.
>>
>> As I said - no technical problem doing that, however in the engine we
>> use the term "Disk" and the current name of the relevant VMs sub-tab
>> is "Disks" and the name of the new main tab would be "Disks" (or
>> "Virtual Disks"), etc. - so it will be strange to call the feature
>> "floating image" when "floating" is going to be column in a GUI grid
>> titled "Disks".
>> I assume that you can also find explanations of why using the term
>> "Disk" is confusing and "Image" is better; I am just genuinely not
>> sure what is less confusing.
> This is inconsistency I agree, but I think that from the User perspective we should stick with either Disk or Drive. In any OS of a Server/Desktop the term rather Disk or Drives.

I'd go with what the REST API calls them right now, as changing it would 
be the painful part.