Re: [Engine-devel] Domain rescan action question

From: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Dan Yasny" <dyasny(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Ricky Hopper" <Ricky.Hopper(a)netapp.com&gt; Cc: engine-devel(a)ovirt.org Sent: Wednesday, 1 August, 2012 12:24:42 AM Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Domain rescan action question ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "Ricky Hopper" <Ricky.Hopper(a)netapp.com&gt; > Cc: engine-devel(a)ovirt.org > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 4:44:34 PM > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Domain rescan action question > > On 07/31/2012 11:30 PM, Hopper, Ricky wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > As I'm making progress with the domain rescan functionality, I've > > realized that I'm unsure what to do with any disks that are > > detected on > > the domain. Should I add them back into the database to be listed > > as > > floating disks, or should I just return a list of disk images to > > be > > attached to whatever the caller of the query needs? > > > > - Ricky > > i'm not sure they should be added automatically. > I think a dialog[1] showing orphan disks/images on the storage > domain > for user to choose which to import as 'floating' disks would be > better > than auto importing them. > > there is also the reverse of flagging existing disks as 'missing' > in > storage? > Perhaps we should start a feature page to discuss and better scope it. There is a feature page that we could expand, it doesn't discuss the notion of importing those disks which is certainly something we need to address. http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Features/Orphaned_Images

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