[Kimchi-devel] RFC: "Add disk to existing logical storage pool"

[Ramon Medeiros]

We can filter only clean/empty partitions, how is happening while 
creating a logical storage poll, so, the user is obligated to clean the 
partition by itself.

On 01/31/2014 11:42 AM, Daniel H Barboza wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am almost delivering a first version of this feature but now I am 
> having doubts in how it might work or not.
>
> My implementation would use vgextend and add a disk to an existing LVM 
> pool. The question is that, in this process, all existing data in the 
> added partition will be deleted. Is this ok? We can warn the user 
> about it, of course. But I am not sure if this is the intended design.
>
> I've spoken with Aline a while ago and she agreed that the 
> implementation would function similar to what we have today when 
> creating a new LVM pool. We simply "do not care" about the potential 
> data loss when adding the disk to an existing pool.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> thanks!
>
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