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Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [RFC storage] content-dirs: check that all content
 dirs are pairwise inequal
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On 07/06/2023 12:01, Fiona Ebner wrote:
> Should we also check in the create/update API calls for syntactic
> duplicates and fail the call? E.g. I can successfully issue:
> pvesh set /storage/foo --content-dirs backup=bar,iso=bar
> and only get the error later during activation.

Not allowing users to configure `content-dirs` with syntactic duplicates
sounds good to me (it wouldn't catch situations involving symlinks, but
those require quite some manual hacking from the user's side anyway).

As this would be mostly a convenience feature, I'd send a patch after
next week if that's okay.