[Engine-devel] Domain rescan action question

[Omer Frenkel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow at redhat.com>
> To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>, "Dan Yasny" <dyasny at redhat.com>, "Ricky Hopper" <Ricky.Hopper at netapp.com>
> Cc: engine-devel at 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 at redhat.com>
> > To: "Ricky Hopper" <Ricky.Hopper at netapp.com>
> > Cc: engine-devel at 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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