On 08/06/10 16:24, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 03:55:50PM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
> Currently image files will be left on the export domain if a conversion fails.
> It isn't possible to delete these through the RHEV UI, requiring an
> administrator to clean them up manually.
>
> This change causes images to be written to a temporary directory on the export
> domain, and moved to the correct location immediately before writing the OVF
> file. It also removes this temporary directory automatically on unclean
> shutdown. This means that a failed conversion shouldn't leave anything on the
> export domain. Even if it does, for example because of a power failure, the
> temporary files are clearly separated in their own directory.
The patch is fairly confusing because of the use of NFSHelper, but I
have two potential concerns:
NFSHelper is unfortunate. As is NFS...
(a) I don't think Perl 'rename' function will work if the
temporary
directory is on a different filesystem from the final destination.
You might be better off using the 'mv' shell command (possibly with
suitable shell quoting) instead.
This is ok, because the temporary directory is explicitly created on the
export storage domain, so it won't cross a filesystem boundary. I do
this specifically to avoid an additional data copy.
+ my $root = "$mountdir/$domainuuid";
$root is the top level directory of the export storage domain. Because
it's a subdirectory of $mountdir, it's on NFS.
+ unless (defined($tmpdir)) {
+ my $nfs = Sys::VirtV2V::Target::RHEV::NFSHelper->new(sub {
+ print tempdir("v2v.XXXXXXXX", DIR => $root);
+ });
The NFS helper creates a new temporary directory will the given template
under $root, so is also on NFS. NFSHelper works with stdout, so it
prints the result.
+ my $fromchild = $nfs->{fromchild};
+ ($tmpdir) = <$fromchild>;
$tmpdir is the first line of output from the child.
+ $nfs->check_exit();
check_exit() will die() with error output if there was any error.
(b) Where is $tmpdir typically? If it's on /tmp you might find
you
have limited space, eg. if /tmp is a ramdisk. (We have the same
problem in libguestfs, and people can override it by setting $TMPDIR).
See above. The location of tmpdir is chosen deliberately.
Matt
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