[Engine-devel] Domain rescan action question

[Dan Yasny]

----- 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, 1 August, 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

The original idea was to scan the storage domains and compare the images lists to the database, thus getting a list of images no longer relevant and scrubbing the storage. This will actually be addressed properly in the future (Ayal can elaborate on that) but for now this is needed at least for that use case.


As I understand, the conversation here is about trying to take an already populated SD (from another setup I suppose), scanning it and putting it into RHEV?

> 
> > 
> > [1] or a subtab on the storage domain.
> > 
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Regards, 

Dan Yasny 
Red Hat Israel 
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