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["Mark Washenberger" <mark.washenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are we using the name metadata to describe a different feature than the one that exists in the CloudServers api?

It seems like a different feature for the user-properties metadata to have meaning to the api other than "store this information so I can read it later".

"Justin Santa Barbara" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

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> We decided in the merge to call it Metadata, despite being fully aware of
> the semantic issues, because that's what the CloudServers / OpenStack API
> uses.
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> There are many better terms, but for the sake of avoiding a Tower of Babel,
> let's just call it Metadata.
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> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Sandy Walsh <sandy.walsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> Was just speaking with dabo about this and we agree that metadata is a bad
>> name for this capability.
>>
>> I don't really care about what we call it, but metadata has some
>> preconceived notions/meanings. Perhaps Criteria?
>>
>> Currently we have *some* criteria for creating a new instance on the
>> Openstack API side: flavors and operating system. But I think the OS API
>> payload allows for additional "criteria" to be passed in with the request
>> (not sure).
>>
>> Eventually all this stuff will have to make it to the Scheduler for
>> Server-Best-Match/Zone-Best-Match. That's somewhere on our task list for
>> Cactus :/
>>
>> $0.02
>>
>> -S
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