[Gluster-devel] Another feature request

[Dale Dude]

Vikas Gorur wrote:
> 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
>
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Use XML :)