[pve-devel] [PATCH manager v4 3/6] added Config for Shared Filesystem Directories

[Dominik Csapak]

On 5/4/23 10:13, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> Am 03/05/2023 um 13:26 schrieb Dominik Csapak:
>> just a short comment since this series overlaps a bit with my
>> cluster resource mapping series (i plan on sending a v4 soon).
>>
>> i'd prefer to have the configuration endpoints for mapping bundled in a subdirectory
>> so instead of /nodes/<node>/dirs/ i'd put it in /nodes/<node>/mapping/dirs/
>> (or /nodes/<node>/map/dirs )
>>
>> @thomas, @fabian, any other input on that?
>>
> 
> huh? aren't mappings per definition cluster wide i.e. /cluster/resource-map/<mapping-id>
> than then allows to add/update the mapping of a resource on a specific node?
> A node specific path makes no sense to me, at max it would if adding/removing a mapping
> is completely decoupled from adding/removing/updaing entries to it – but that seems
> convoluted from an usage POV and easy to get out of sync with the actual mapping list.

in markus series the mapping are only ever per node, so each node has it's
own dir mapping

in my series, the actual config was cluster-wide, but the api endpoint to configure
them were sitting in the node path (e.g. /node/<nodes>/hardware-map/pci/*)

the reason is that to check the validity of the mapping (at least for creating/updating)
need to happen at the node itself anyway since only that node can check it
(e.g. for pci devices, if it exists, the ids are correct etc.)

we *could* put them into the cluster path api, but we'd need to send a node parameter
along and forward it there anyway, so that wouldn't really make a difference

for reading the mappings, that could be done there, but in my series in the gui at least,
i have to make a call to each node to get the current state of the mapping
(e.g. if the pci device is still there)

if a mapping exists (globally) is not interesting most of the time, we only need to know
if it exists at a specific node

also, after seeing markus' patches, i also leaned more in the direction of splitting
my global mapping config into a config per type+node (so node1/usb.conf, node1/pci.conf,
etc.) since then i can omit my custom json/section config parser and use plain
section configs. for the api calls it does not make a difference, since we only
ever need to write from a specific node to that, and for the global state we
can simply read all configs. (we then also can omit the global cluster lock for
editing...)

does that make sense?