Hi all, We had a quick meeting w.r.t. all the storage design and discussions that had happened on the list and at conferences in the last few months. Here is a quick summary, please let us know if you have any comments:
Participants: ultrotter, helgav, dimitris, constantinos, vangelis, christos Topics: Free storage reporting, storage pools, multiple disk backends per instrance, disk and nic referencing, RBD, hotplug. Outcomes: - Free storage reporting: this can be done without conflicting with future features. helgav will be updating the design doc and proceed with the implementation - storage pools: new design doc coming in march - multiple disk backends for an instance: to be removed from the storage pool design. new design doc to be written. (possibly will depend on storage pools) - disks and nic referencing: it would be useful to be able to reference to disks and nics by UUID and/or (optionally) by name. grnet (christos) to write design and implementation, for 2.8. - disks as separate entities can be considered afterwards (second part of 2013) as well. - hotplug: this is deferred until after UUID referencing is implemented. - RBD: userspace connection from kvm not to be implemented for now by grnet - RBD: managing of RBD storage as ganeti nodes can be considered as an idea, after storage pools are implemented. Thanks, Guido
