+1 on Tom's suggestion. Having a standard like the one used for hbase is good. Keep the short form around (deprecated).
Patrick On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Tom White <[email protected]> wrote: > The shorter names (nn, zk, etc) predate Whirr to when the roles were a > part of the group name and had to be kept short to conform to various > length restrictions. We do things differently now that we have > multi-cloud support, so keeping them short is less important, and > indeed with a global namespace (since service name is optional) there > is even more reason to make them distinctive and unique. So I would > suggest the longer, hyphenated form that we adopted for HBase, like > hbase-regionserver; so the pattern is <service-name>-<daemon>. > > There's not much harm in keeping the shorter forms around, but we > could introduce aliases like hadoop-namenode, zookeeper, etc and > deprecate the short ones. > > Does that sound reasonable? > > Cheers, > Tom > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Andrei Savu <[email protected]> wrote: >> Whirr support the following instance roles: dn, jt, nn, tt, zk, >> hbase-avroserver, hbase-master, hbase-regionserver, hbase-restserver, >> hbase-thriftserver and as you can see the naming is inconsistent and >> sometimes it's hard to guess the meaning. >> >> Should we have a convention for role names? I believe this is important now >> that service-name is optional. >> >> -- Andrei Savu >> >
