[xen-tools-dev] RFC : arguments validation

[Stéphane Jourdois]

Le 17/07/2010 13:36, Dmitry Nedospasov a écrit :
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 01:31:33PM +0200, Dmitry Nedospasov wrote:
>> Hmm, I'll have to test this later. I haven't found any suffixes in the
>> xmexamples on my dom0 though, which was my original point. Try setting
>> Gb, will this work?
>
> Actually this reminds me of how confusing this is for people who don't
> understand what the parameters are for. Does anyone know how the size
> parameters are actually parsed?
>
> It would be nice to have a common format for them. I know that for
> example, --size<size>G works for me because AFAIK this gets passed
> directly to lvcreate (as i use LVM).
>
> Should we maybe add this to a TODO?

That's exactly what I was thinking 3 minutes ago while replying to your 
previous mail !

I'll do that while finishing the validation patch.

Thanks for the idea.

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