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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Sorry
Ronald, <br>
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On 20.05.21 15:09, Roland Kammerer wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 01:54:13PM +0100, Yanni M. wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I second this. A resource definition or resource rename functionality would
be useful. This should be fairly easy to accomplish in Linstor given that
drbd .res files (without Linstor layer) can be easily renamed?
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">but
this is a really lame excuse. I have developed software since
40 years. At least in the last 30 years no real developer
mixes primary keys with names of resources any more.<br>
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">And if
he did, and be told about it, he would notice that this was a
severe error and be glad to fix it.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">All
that I and some others here like to have is the possibility to
change the "label" of a resource. No more, no less. We do not
like to change any data on disk, nor UIDs of partitions or the
such.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">That
the current information "vm-X-disk-Y" on what VM as which disk
the resource acts is not needed for linstore/drbd internally
to work correctly is shown in my example. I can add </font></font><br>
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size="+1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">"vm-X-disk-Y"
to a VM Q as Disc R and it would run flawlessly. Only that
the label then does not match the logical "context" any
more.<br>
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="+1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">What
linbit lacks is simply the abstraction and distinction of
"display label" and "internal unique identifier".<br>
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Cheers,</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Volker</font></font></p>
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