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    Multiple ExtStorage Providers and ext-params · 938adc87
    Constantinos Venetsanopoulos authored
    
    
    Add support for passing parameters to the ext template (ext-params).
    Take advantage of disk-params, that don't seem to make much sense in
    this template (ExtStorage Providers are not predefined and we don't
    know their needs) and use them to pass the ext-params dynamically to
    the template.
    
    ext-params are correlated with gnt-os-interface's os-params.
    All ext-params are exported to the ExtStorage Provider through it's
    environment, with variables prefixed with 'EXTP_' (similarly to the
    OS interface's 'OSP_' params).
    
    ext-params are passed via the --disk option. If the disk template
    is of type `ext', then any additional options passed to --disk and
    are not in IDISK_PARAMS are considered ext-params e.g.:
    
     gnt-instance add -t ext --disk=0:size=2G,param1=value1,param2=value2
    
    Finally, we introduce a new IDISK_PARAM called IDISK_PROVIDER, that is
    mandatory for template `ext' and is used to select the desired
    ExtStorage Provider. This parameter is not a valid --disk option for
    any other template type.
    
    The IDISK_PROVIDER parameter becomes the first element of the
    disk's unique_id tuple e.g.:
    
     unique_id = ('sample_provider1', 'UUID.ext.diskX')
    
    Example selecting different ExtStorage Providers for each disk and
    passing different ext-params to them:
    
     -t ext --disk=0:size=2G,provider=sample_provider1,param1=value1
            --disk=1:size=3G,provider=sample_provider2,param2=value2
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarConstantinos Venetsanopoulos <cven@grnet.gr>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIustin Pop <iustin@google.com>
    [iustin@google.com: small simplification in bdev code, pylint fixes]
    Reviewed-by: default avatarIustin Pop <iustin@google.com>
    938adc87