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[Devin Carlen <devin.carlen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here's a few crazy questions for you guys to consider:

1) Why are we even trying to have the same ID for an instance or image across two different APIs?

2) How many people really switch back and forth between OpenStack and EC2 API once they pick one?

3) How many people really expect euca2ools and python-novatools to return the same IDs for the same instances?

4) Why not just store a EC2 ID and a OS ID alongside an actual row PK?  



My point with these questions is that very little is gained from forcing two different APIs to try to use the same ID, especially given that the format is different. I would argue that it has created a lot more problems than it has solved.


Devin



On Jul 8, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Soren Hansen wrote:

> 2011/7/8 Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Yes they seem to apply to all ids
>> r-XXXXXXX
>> ami-XXXXXXX
>> i-XXXXXXX
>> vol-XXXXXXX
>> snap-XXXXXXX
>> 
>> That said we are using base-36 for the hex in reservation ids and no one has complained, so i don't think they are used by the tools that much.
> 
> Not true. ElasticFox does not work with this.
> 
> I don't think we're yet at a point where we can say that lack of
> complaints about stuff means something's fine. That sort of assumption
> only starts to be useful when we have lots of real users. The users we
> have so far are people who care about OpenStack for OpenStack's sake,
> not "random" users who are being given access to an OpenStack
> deployment and being told "talk to this like you would talk to EC2.
> It'll work fine." Different expectations.
> 
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