Re: [Xen-tools] [PATCH] Xenstore mkdir/write implicitly create directories

[Josh Triplett <josht@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 09:15 +0100, Christian Limpach wrote:
> Hi Rusty!
> 
> >     I'm working on making the xenstore init/restart more robust.  My idea
> > is to introduce a "--init" option which means "blow away any data in the
> > store, we're starting fresh" for use at boot time, and a "--restart"
> > which shuts down the old xenstored and gracefully takes over (upgrades).
> 
> Sounds good, although wouldn't it be just as easy (and maybe a little
> more flexible) to implement the --init option in a seperate tool?  Unless
> it's really dumb and just wipes out the whole store?  I hacked up a small
> tool to blow away old backend directories and even something simple like
> that was quite awkward to implement in C because of string handling and
> memory allocation.  I think at some point we'll definitely need some
> kind of garbage collecting tool...

For that matter, if --init will just wipe out the whole store, it seems
easier to integrate it into the init.d script ("rm
-rf /var/lib/xenstored") than into xenstored itself.

- Josh Triplett



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