[Engine-devel] Floating Disks implementation in REST-API

[Geert Jansen]

On 04/16/2012 02:39 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote:

> Is there a 3rd option based on #1 where we just detach the disk rather than detaching and deleting?
> That could be further extended by adding an optional delete flag

This was discussed and the problem with that is that it's not backwards 
compatible. Current clients and ISV software expects to be able to 
DELETE a disk, and after that it expects that the disk is gone. If we 
change behavior so that DELETE becomes detach by default, then old 
clients when they DELETE without any flags will instead create a 
floating disk.

Regards,
Geert