On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:26:10AM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Guido Trotter <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Iustin Pop <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:09:43AM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Iustin Pop <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > I was going to add another flag to the cluster settings, and to me it
> >>> > seems that it's not really good to have N flags directly int the cluster
> >>> > object. For example, we have today “modify_etc_hosts”, and I want to add
> >>> > now “enable_bridging”, we'll also need “modify_root_ssh”, etc.
> >>> >
> >>> > I think we should either name them all flag_$blah (not so nice for
> >>> > cmdline) or move them to a sub-object cluster.flags (this is not good as
> >>> > then gnt-cluster modify is harder to work, or maybe not).
> >>> >
> >>> > Is it a non-issue actually? Or is it, but I should just ignore it and
> >>> > add my flag for now?
> >>>
> >>> Why making the interface to them more complicated by hiding them in a
> >>> "flags" object?
> >>> In the end what problem is there if they stay in the main cluster one?
> >>> They're settings for a cluster.
> >>
> >> Yes, true, which is why I said maybe it's a non-issue.
> >>
> >> It just seems to me that if we have 8-10 boolean flags it is better if
> >> we separate those, as just from the name it's not clear what they mean.
> >> I'm happy to leave things as they are if you think it's fine.
> >>
> >>> Also, for the bridge, should we have an explicit enable/disable
> >>> bridging, or just not populate the default bridge, if --no-bridging is
> >>> passed (same as we do for --no-lvm-...)?
> >>
> >> We need explicit disable, in which case we won't run the cluster verify
> >> checks for the dependencies of bridging.
> >
> > Which we could not run anyway, if there is not default bridge set (and
> > no instance needs a bridge).
> 
> == all the nics are in "routed" mode... Isn't this safer?

We're back at square one, circa May 2009 :)

I still argue that explicit (yes, I need bridging) is better than
implicit.  Otherwise, right after a cluster creation, with no instances,
your proposal would make the cluster verify say everything's OK whereas
it's not. And I like more if gnt-instance add rejects my misguided
attempts to create a bridged network when the cluster config doesn't
allow it.

Now if this is done via empty default bridge or a boolean flag it's
irrelevant.

iustin

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