On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:37 AM, MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka at lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote: >> Something else I'm contemplating is storage of metadata associated with >> virtual drives, e.g. which user it belongs to, the user-provided drive name, >> and other management layer properties on the drive. Is there a way I can tag >> vdis in Sheepdog with a few short keys and values? (I know I could construct >> a separate simple distributed database for this on top of the same corosync >> backend as Sheepdog uses, but I'd like to avoid this if additional metadata >> would naturally fit within Sheepdog as the total amount of metadata I'm >> looking to store is very tiny!) > > It sounds good to me to have the feature in Sheepdog. Storing > something like accounting information is necessary feature for hosting > use. How about the following commands? > > $ collie vdi setdata [key] [value] > $ collie vdi getdata [key] Sorry, I didn't answer your question. Currently, there is no way to have additional metadata within Sheepdog. Thanks, Kazutaka |