Re: [PATCH 2/3] storage: wipe: Don't attempt to wipe remote storage

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On 07/10/2014 08:30 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> Volume wiping uses external tool to wipe the storage. This will not work
> with purely remote storage as native gluster or RBD. Add a check to
> report better error when wiping a remote volume.
> 
> Before:
>  $ virsh vol-wipe --pool glusterpool qcow3
>  error: Failed to wipe vol qcow3
>  error: Failed to open storage volume with path 'gluster://gluster-node-1/gv0/qcow3': No such file or directory
> 
> After:
>  $ virsh vol-wipe --pool glusterpool qcow3
>  error: Failed to wipe vol qcow3
>  error: Operation not supported: Volume wiping is not supported on non-local storage

Technically, remote wiping MAY be possible (in fact, it may even be MORE
efficient than calling out to external storage - doesn't gluster provide
some APIs to request background file wiping?).  But that's where we'd
need per-pool callbacks for handling the request (local storage uses the
existing code, remote storage supplies new callbacks to hook into the
proper wipe protocol for that storage).

I'd feel a bit better if we refactored this function into delegating the
wipe to a _backend.c file callback, and failing when the callback is not
yet defined, rather than open-coding it to be local-only.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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