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The NFS, GlusterFS, SMBFS, and Quobyte libvirt volume drivers are all 
very similar.

I want to extract a common base class that abstracts some of the common 
code and then let the sub-classes provide overrides where necessary.

As part of this, I'm wondering if we could just have a single 
'mount_point_base' config option rather than one per backend like we 
have today:

nfs_mount_point_base
glusterfs_mount_point_base
smbfs_mount_point_base
quobyte_mount_point_base

With libvirt you can only have one of these drivers configured per 
compute host right?  So it seems to make sense that we could have one 
option used for all 4 different driver implementations and reduce some 
of the config option noise.

I checked the os-brick change [1] proposed to nova to see if there would 
be any conflicts there and so far that's not touching any of these 
classes so seems like they could be worked in parallel.

Are there any concerns with this?

Is a blueprint needed for this refactor?

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/175569/

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann