[Engine-devel] Domain rescan action question

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- 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] or a subtab on the storage domain.
> 
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