Re: targetcli and user-backed backstores, advice?

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Hi Andy,

On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 09:58:10 -0700, Andy Grover wrote :
> I've been working on userspace-backed backstores, and am now working
> on how best to represent them in targetcli. Here's what I have so far:
> 
> https://fedorapeople.org/~grover/targetcli-user-screenshot.png
> 
> This puts user-backed backstores under /backstores/user, and the 
> existing kernel-based backstores are under /backstores. The issue
> being that the alternating-hierarchy-color feature colors
> user-backstores the same as storage objects ("blah" and "glfs" are
> colored the same).
> 
> Do you have any thoughts on if there are better ways we could clearly 
> represent user-backed backstores? Would perhaps listing all
> backstores together be better, or even putting the existing ones
> under "kernel"? Or some other thing we could do?

What about removing backstores/user and prefixing the user-backed
backstores names:

+-- backstores
    |-- block
    |-- fileio
    |-- pscsi
    |-- ramdisk
    |-- user:file
    +-- user:glfs

Best regards,

-- 
Christophe Vu-Brugier
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