[one-users] A couple of questions about definition file

[Ruben S. Montero]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Gian Uberto Lauri <saint at eng.it> wrote:

> Hello gentlemen,
>
> can someone explain a couple of  thigs about the "Disk" section of the
> definition file ?
>
>
> First, why should I define a source property for a disk created on the
> fly ?
>

You shouldn't. Only SIZE and FORMAT are needed for FS types


>
> And what  should be a block  device ? Some  kind of mapping to  a real
> world blockl device ?
>
>
I guess you are asking for block types. This is use to let know the
hypervisor that the image is a block device. The transfer manager scripts
are used to setup the block device in the hosts (e.g. the LVM driver...)

Cheers


> Thank you in advance.
>
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