[pve-devel] Increase readability of hardware overview of vm

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Wed Aug 22 11:36:24 CEST 2012


> Am 21.08.2012 16:10, schrieb Dietmar Maurer:
> >> Am 03.08.2012 09:58, schrieb Timo Grodzinski:
> >>> Especially the string
> >>> "local:107/vm-107-disk-
> >>
> 1.raw,cache=writethrough,bps_rd=103457600,bps_wr=209715200,iops_rd=3
> >> 00,iops_rw=400"
> >>>
> >>> could be improved to
> >>> "local:107/vm-107-disk-1.raw, cache=writethrough, limit_rd=100Mb/s,
> >> limit_wr=200Mb/s, iops_rd=300, iops_rw=400"
> >>
> >> I have written a renderer which does the above transformation, so
> >> that read and write limits will be more readable.
> >
> > Changing names is not really an improvement for me.
> > Adding units is OK for me.
> 
> You can't leave names with 'bps' (bytes per second) unchanged while
> changing units.

Maybe we can just add a size modifier (T, G,M,K), like:

1.raw,cache=writethrough,bps_rd=100M,bps_wr=200M

I would read that as '100M bps' ==> 100 Million bytes per second

What do you think?




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