From: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow(a)redhat.com>
To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com>, "Dan Yasny"
<dyasny(a)redhat.com>, "Ricky Hopper" <Ricky.Hopper(a)netapp.com>
Cc: engine-devel(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 12:24:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Domain rescan action question
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com>
> To: "Ricky Hopper" <Ricky.Hopper(a)netapp.com>
> 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
+1
also, how will be handled images with snapshots?
or broken chain of images (not sure its a valid scenario)
>
> [1] or a subtab on the storage domain.
>
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