[Engine-devel] PosixFS: GUI mock-ups have been updated

Geert Jansen gjansen at redhat.com
Fri May 11 14:10:37 UTC 2012


On 05/10/2012 09:46 PM, Ayal Baron wrote:

> device is what is being mounted and in the case of NFS is server:path
>
> There is a reason why we termed it PosixFS and not SharedFS and that users can specify local devices/FS's (and there is no reason to limit it).
>
> Note that if user defines a local FS and adds 2 hosts to the Posix FS DC then 1 host will be non-op

Why? This makes some very interesting use cases a lot more difficult to 
set up. We should allow multiple hosts in a PosixFS data center, and it 
should be the user's responsibility that if he adds multiple hosts, that 
each of those see the same data.

Regards,
Geert



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