[Gluster-devel] Another feature request

[Vikas Gorur]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 02:00:43PM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> Me again :-(
> 
> While experimenting with additional translators like read-ahead and write-behind,
> I found that each time I want to activate/deactivate a translator layer I have
> to change the reference in the upper layer of the stack. This will sooner or
> later result in typing errors, making the whole stack fail completely, or a
> layer missed out because of an incorrect reference.
> Would it be possible to flag a translator as INACTIVE (kind of hand-through)
> or ACTIVE (this should be the default) while keeping the whole stack unchanged?
> Probably this won't make it for 1.3.0 release...

This would be a nice feature to have. However, I'd vote for keeping
the specfile semantics simple (as-is), and to do these kinds of things
at a higher layer, like the web-based configuration/specfile
generation interface.

Vikas