[sheepdog] [PATCH V4 2/2] collie: optimize 'collie vdi check' command

MORITA Kazutaka morita.kazutaka at lab.ntt.co.jp
Mon Sep 3 14:40:32 CEST 2012


At Mon, 3 Sep 2012 20:11:48 +0800,
Yunkai Zhang wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Liu Yuan <namei.unix at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 09/03/2012 07:12 PM, Yunkai Zhang wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Liu Yuan <namei.unix at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On 09/03/2012 06:54 PM, Yunkai Zhang wrote:
> >>>> We can compare this result with comand line tools: sha1sum, which can
> >>>> also help us to verify program's correction I think.
> >>>
> >>> Could you specify a use case for this? I have no idea how end users can
> >>> make use of sha1 string. For a crashed cluster, I think want users need
> >>> to do is, run check to restore cluster consistency by one command like fsck.
> >>
> >> Our root problem is just why we need to move sha1_to_hex from
> >> farm/sha1_file.c to lib/sha1.c, does this change bother you?
> >>
> >
> > Of course, it is ugly. Sha1 is only used in Farm, moving it out of Farm implementation
> > is nonsense to me.
> >
> >> Show sha1 string will make the output more meaningful for us, why need
> >> to a use case? It's a so small/simple thing, do you like argue
> >> everything?
> >>
> >
> > 1) it is my duty to review patches and whoever tries to move sha1_to_hex() out of
> > sha1_file.c, I will ask why he needs it and verify if it is a reasonable movement.
> > 2) it is you who always take patch comments as malicious argument which is meant to
> > be against you but in fact only meaningful to patch itself.
> 
> You misunderstand me, I didn't take any comments as malicious argument
> for me, what I think is that you spend so much time to discuss those
> triviality.
> 
> Don't you think 'Move sha1.c from farm/sha1_file.c to lib/sha1.c' is
> worth discussing? Time is very precious for us, does it?

If we need the function outside farm, it is okay to move it to
lib/sha1.c.  I think what Yuan want to know is that how it will help
users to print sha1 values in the collie outputs.  What is the
situation users want to compare hash strings?

Thanks,

Kazutaka



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