Re: xl - no support for DRBD disks?

[Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>]

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On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 04:24 +0100, Shriram Rajagopalan wrote:
> > I tried to create a domain with drbd based disk as the backend
> > "drbd:<resourcename>,..," and I get a "unknown disk type" error.
> >
> > I can spin out a patch if needed, but just wanted to know apriori if
> > this was left out for any specific reason.
>
> Not deliberate AFAIK.
>
> The intention is to make xl callout to a script whose name is derived
> from the initial part of the disk definition (e.g. the drdb part,
> similarly for iscsi and so on).
>
> So, the "callout to a script" functionality is already available as part of
the scripts in /etc/xen/scripts/. This includes a call out to
block-drbd (supplied by DRBD package)
block-nbd, block-enbd (supplied as part of xen tree). Cant we just re-use
them
or is there some xend specific aspect to those scripts?

shriram

> IanJ was looking at overhauling disk handling, including that
> functionality.
>
> Ian.
>
>

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