Bug 1037456

Summary: 'dir' type pool always autostart
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: yanbing du <ydu>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 6.5CC: acathrow, berrange, dyuan, mzhan, zpeng
Target Milestone: rc   
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Whiteboard: virsh cmd
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Clone Of: 1036603 Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-12-03 09:18:41 UTC Type: Bug
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Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2013-12-03 09:18:41 UTC
When libvirtd starts up it probes all storage pools to identify if they are already active on the host. If the filesystem that the directory is located on is mounted, then the directory based pool is trivially active. This is unrelated to autostart, which aims to start pools from scratch.