[Sheepdog] [PATCH v5 02/17] store: add dynamic mechanism to chain the available backend stores.

[Liu Yuan]

On 01/05/2012 04:27 AM, MORITA Kazutaka wrote:

> This patch has style problems.  Use tabs instead of spaces where
> possible.
> 
>>  - change global store structure to a pointer
>>  - use a list to maintain the stores.
>>  - use /obj/.store to remember backend store persistently.
> 
> How about writing the backend driver name into 'config'?  Sheepdog
> uses the file to store global info.

Ah, yea.

> How about sending the driver name instead of its index?  Then, we
> don't need to maintain consistency between index_to_name() and
> get_store_index().


Yes, but seems that struct sd_so_req only have 7 bytes available, we
have some limit to name the store driver, in assumption we don't create
a new sd_xx_req struct.

Thanks,
Yuan