[OCF]Updates Resource Agent API

James Bottomley ocf@lists.community.tummy.com
01 Aug 2003 09:35:40 -0500


On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 04:08, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2003-08-01T11:11:57,
>    Horms <horms@verge.net.au> said:
> 
> > * Section 3.2
> > 
> >   "The subdirectories allow the installation of multiple RAs for the same
> >   type, but from different vendors or package versions.
> > 
> >   TODO: As the resource type is also embedded in the metadata returned
> >   from the RA, should this sentence go away and instead have the RM
> >   discover the installed resource types?"
> > 
> >   I don't see any advantage to this. The proposed directory
> >   structure seems both logical and conenient.
> 
> Well, but it also means that the filenames have special meanings which
> is redundant wrt the metadata. I was just asking whether that was a good
> idea.
> 
> What do the others think?

I agree it could be viewed as redundant, but from the first draft of the
SPEC it provides clear instructions to the implementor, so I vote for
keeping it for that reason.

James