[Engine-devel] Floating Disk feature description

[Itamar Heim]

On 02/02/2012 12:25 PM, Daniel Erez wrote:
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>> 6. permissions not available for disks?
>> at all?
>> what do you mean power user would be able to attach them by their
>> type?
>> does it mean they can associate any shared disk in the system? I hope
>> i'm misunderstanding, as doesn't make sense to me.
>>
>> or is this caveat specific to the user portal and not the admin?
>> not allowing creating a floating disk from user portal is not a
>> problem
>> in my view for this phase.
>>
>> I assume anyone can add a disk on a storage domain they have quota
>> to.
>> who can edit a disk? remove a disk? attach disk to VM (which gives
>> them
>> ability to edit the disk)
>> (attach disk to VM obviously requires permission on both disk and VM)
>
> Since we won't support permissions on disks entities (at first stage),
> as a compromise for the power user portal, we've agreed to simply hide
> floating non shared disks from the user.

I still think we won't find a decent way to model this without 
permissions, regardless of the power user portal.
we'll hit too many problems.
I'll look into this a bit more.