[Users] Progress on image operations (dd & USR1 signal)

Hi, I am using ovirt 3.2 and noticed that during image operations (move, copy) the user has no progress report. This is painful, especially if the images are large or the storage is slow. Vdsm uses 'dd' to transfer images and dd provides a simple progress report, when it receives the USR1 signal. Could this be uses to provide the user with some kind of progress? Right now i would do it with myself with strace and kill, but ovirt/vdsm detects an stderr output and reports a failure. $ strace -ff -etrace=write -p `pidof dd` 2>&1 | grep -v 'write(1' # then, in a second terminal I send the signal $ killall -USR1 dd Process 8706 attached - interrupt to quit --- SIGUSR1 (User defined signal 1) @ 0 (0) --- write(2, "14022+0 records in\n14021+0 recor"..., 39) = 39 write(2, "14702084096 bytes (15 GB) copied", 32) = 32 write(2, ", 2189.75 s, 6.7 MB/s\n", 22) = 22 -- Ernest Beinrohr, AXON PRO Ing <http://www.beinrohr.sk/ing.php>;, RHCE <http://www.beinrohr.sk/rhce.php>;, RHCVA <http://www.beinrohr.sk/rhce.php>;, LPIC <http://www.beinrohr.sk/lpic.php>;, +421-2--6241-0360 <callto://+421-2--6241-0360>, +421-903--482-603 <callto://+421-903--482-603> icq:28153343, skype:oernii-work <callto://oernii-work>, jabber:oernii@jabber.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ “The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.” ― Oscar Wilde