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Subject: Re: [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 05/23] api2: admin: add
 (un)mount endpoint for removable datastores
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On 9/21/23 10:37, Lukas Wagner wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/21/23 09:50, Hannes Laimer wrote:
>> On 9/19/23 15:38, Lukas Wagner wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/15/23 08:54, Hannes Laimer wrote:
>>>> +pub fn do_mount_device(
>>>> +        datastore.set_maintenance_mode(None);
>>>
>>> I think this overrides existing maintenance modes... e.g. if a datastore
>>> is 'read-only', unmounted and mounted again, then the 'read-only' 
>>> mode will be gone.
>>>
>> Yes, it does. Why should it not? The only situation where that could be
>> a problem is if a removable datastore should not be written to at all,
>> so it would either be unplugged or ro. But in this case, why setup sync
>> jos or backups to a datastore that should not be written to in the first
>> place?
>>
> 
> I agree that there might be limited number of use cases where this is 
> actually a problem. That being said, from a user's perspective I would 
> find this behavior quite surprising if I were to stumble across it. I 
> guess that's due to the fact that it is not really apparent that 'not 
> mounted' is also handled as a maintenance mode, that replaces others.
> 
> If you keep this behavior as is, it should at least be documented in the 
> admin guide.
> 
Makes sense, should add some docs anyway