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

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Geert Jansen" <gjansen at redhat.com>
> To: "Ayal Baron" <abaron at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow at redhat.com>, engine-devel at ovirt.org, "Simon Grinberg" <sgrinber at redhat.com>, "Saggi
> Mizrahi" <smizrahi at redhat.com>, "Ori Liel" <oliel at redhat.com>, "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs at redhat.com>, "Miki
> Kenneth" <mkenneth at redhat.com>, "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 10:10:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] PosixFS: GUI mock-ups have been updated
> 
> 
> 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.


I *think* we're saying the same thing.
If you have multiple hosts in a datacenter with PosixFS then it's your responsibility to make sure that they can all see the same storage


> 
> Regards,
> Geert
>