From: Lukas Wagner <l.wagner@proxmox.com>
To: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>,
Proxmox Backup Server development discussion
<pbs-devel@lists.proxmox.com>,
Hannes Laimer <h.laimer@proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 00/23] add removable datastores
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:08:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43384cca-f503-416d-ac4c-b9a25e68298a@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3dbcf56a-bfb5-4d51-b266-de15fef2db56@proxmox.com>
On 9/19/23 17:01, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> Am 19/09/2023 um 15:37 schrieb Lukas Wagner:
>> - I'm not sure if the USB icon is the best choice for a removable data
>> store. it could be a hot plugged SATA disk, iSCSI, etc. - maybe
>> change this to something more generic if possible?
>
> Yeah, USB can be confusing; to avoid decision fatigue I'd suggest one
> of:
>
> - fa-plug (for plug-able) https://fontawesome.com/v4/icon/plug
>
> - fa-chain-broken (not used anywhere, and it sorta looks like it would
> fit but def. more abstract)
> https://fontawesome.com/v4/icon/chain-broken
>
Out of those two I think I'd prefer fa-plug.
>> - There is no way to prepare a disk for the use as a removable
>> datastore from the UI alone. We can create a GPT partition table and
>> create an ext4 partition on it (via 'Directory'), however this creates
>> a mount point for the new partition, so it cannot be used any more
>> when creating a datastore. Maybe creating the mount point could be
>> optional?
>
> While true and definitively wanted in the longer run, I think this might
> be out of scope for this series, to avoid blowing the yak-shaving up too
> much ^^
True, I just wanted to mention it.
--
- Lukas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-19 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-15 6:54 Hannes Laimer
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 01/23] tools: add disks utility functions Hannes Laimer
2023-09-19 13:37 ` Lukas Wagner
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 02/23] pbs-api-types: add backing-device to DataStoreConfig Hannes Laimer
2023-09-19 13:37 ` Lukas Wagner
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 03/23] maintenance: add 'Unpplugged' maintenance type Hannes Laimer
2023-09-19 13:37 ` Lukas Wagner
2023-09-21 7:41 ` Hannes Laimer
2023-09-21 8:16 ` Lukas Wagner
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 04/23] disks: add UUID to partition info Hannes Laimer
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 05/23] api2: admin: add (un)mount endpoint for removable datastores Hannes Laimer
2023-09-19 13:38 ` Lukas Wagner
2023-09-21 7:50 ` Hannes Laimer
2023-09-21 8:37 ` Lukas Wagner
2023-09-21 8:41 ` Hannes Laimer
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 06/23] add helper for checking if a removable datastore is available Hannes Laimer
2023-09-19 13:38 ` Lukas Wagner
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 07/23] api2: removable datastore creation Hannes Laimer
2023-09-19 13:38 ` Lukas Wagner
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 08/23] ui: add partition selector form Hannes Laimer
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 09/23] api2: disks list: add only-unused flag Hannes Laimer
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 10/23] ui: add removable datastore creation support Hannes Laimer
2023-09-19 13:38 ` Lukas Wagner
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 11/23] ui: add (un)mount button to summary Hannes Laimer
2023-09-19 13:38 ` Lukas Wagner
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 12/23] pbs-api-types: datastore: use new proxmox_scheme::de for deserialization Hannes Laimer
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 13/23] pbs-api-types: add removable/is-available flag to DataStoreListItem Hannes Laimer
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 14/23] ui: display removable datastores in list Hannes Laimer
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 15/23] ui: utils: render unplugged maintenance mode correctly Hannes Laimer
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 16/23] ui: utils: make parseMaintenanceMode more robust Hannes Laimer
2023-09-19 13:38 ` Lukas Wagner
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 17/23] ui: add datastore status mask for unplugged removable datastores Hannes Laimer
2023-09-19 13:38 ` Lukas Wagner
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 18/23] ui: maintenance: fix disable msg field if no type is selected Hannes Laimer
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 19/23] ui: maintenance: disable edit if unplugged Hannes Laimer
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 20/23] pb-manager: add (un)mount command Hannes Laimer
2023-09-19 13:38 ` Lukas Wagner
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 21/23] add auto-mounting for removable datastores Hannes Laimer
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 22/23] api: mark removable datastores as unplugged after restart Hannes Laimer
2023-09-15 6:54 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 23/23] datastore: handle deletion of removable datastore properly Hannes Laimer
2023-09-19 13:37 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 00/23] add removable datastores Lukas Wagner
2023-09-19 15:01 ` Thomas Lamprecht
2023-09-19 15:08 ` Lukas Wagner [this message]
2023-09-20 10:22 ` Lukas Wagner
2023-09-19 14:03 ` Lukas Wagner
2023-09-19 15:10 ` Lukas Wagner
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