[Engine-devel] 'deactivate' disk - what's the use case?

[Itamar Heim]

On 06/12/2012 12:25 PM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
> I'm wondering what's the usefulness of having dual action of attach +
> activate to get a disk properly attached and working in a VM (and the
> deactivate and detach counterparts).
>
> The only reason I can think of is that we've annoyed the user by this
> useless dual action when working with storage domains in a data center
> for ages, and we wish to remain consistent and annoy the user in the
> disks scenario as well, but there may be a reason I'm not aware of.

deactivated is like having a disk in offline, or hot unplugging when you 
still want to retain it in the context of the vm configuration

>
> TIA,
> Y.
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