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From: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
To: Proxmox Backup Server development discussion
	<pbs-devel@lists.proxmox.com>,
	Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>,
	Hannes Laimer <h.laimer@proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 00/15] (partially)close #3156: Add support for removable datastores
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 08:28:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f262d672-32d3-d0ea-c486-f7dd3509a219@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f9ac5508-8a4a-52dd-d22e-6b3fe804c415@proxmox.com>

On 02.09.21 08:18, Dominik Csapak wrote:
> On 9/2/21 08:09, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
>> On 01.09.21 16:48, Dominik Csapak wrote:
>>>
>>> also, would it not make sense to have
>>> multiple uuids per datastore instead of only one?
>>>
>>> i guess most users of this will want to have more than
>>> one usb devices in rotation, and having multiple
>>> datastores + multiple sync jobs is probably
>>> a bit error prone. just allowing multiple
>>> uuids for each datastore would solve that
>>> problem nicely
>>
>> Hmm, what would you do if more than one of them are plugged in at the same time?
>> Maybe hard to time on a running system, but possible if I connect a hub with
>> devices already plugged in, and can definitively happen (by mistake) on cold boot.
>>
> 
> my guess is that the udev rules do not trigger simultaneously ?

udev can coalesce events IIRC, and even if not it would not be guaranteed to
be stable so just relying on that fact would provide a bad UX IMO.

> and even if, we could lock the mount/unmount so that this
> does not make a problem and we simply mount the first
> triggered one

see above, IMO weird as the "first" is really not guaranteed to be
stable.

> but yeah, that was just an idea, not a hard requirement for me

IMO this is something we could always add later on without bending backwards,
if user really request it.




  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-02  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-30 11:14 Hannes Laimer
2021-08-30 11:14 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 01/15] tools: add disks utility functions Hannes Laimer
2021-09-01 14:48   ` Dominik Csapak
2021-08-30 11:14 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 02/15] config: add uuid+mountpoint to DataStoreConfig Hannes Laimer
2021-08-30 11:14 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 03/15] api2: add support for removable datastore creation Hannes Laimer
2021-08-30 11:14 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 04/15] backup: add check_if_available function to ds Hannes Laimer
2021-08-30 11:14 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 05/15] api2: add 'is_available' to DataStoreConfig Hannes Laimer
2021-09-01 14:48   ` Dominik Csapak
2021-08-30 11:14 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 06/15] api2: add 'removable' to DataStoreListItem Hannes Laimer
2021-09-01 14:48   ` Dominik Csapak
2021-08-30 11:14 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 07/15] api2: add (un)mount endpoint for removable ds's Hannes Laimer
2021-09-01 14:48   ` Dominik Csapak
2021-08-30 11:14 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 08/15] pbs: add mount-removable command to commandSocket Hannes Laimer
2021-08-30 11:14 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 09/15] pbs-manager: add 'send-command' command Hannes Laimer
2021-08-30 11:15 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 10/15] debian: add udev rule for removable datastores Hannes Laimer
2021-08-30 11:15 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 11/15] ui: show usb icon for removable datastore in list Hannes Laimer
2021-08-30 11:15 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 12/15] ui: add 'removable' checkbox in datastore creation Hannes Laimer
2021-08-30 11:15 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 13/15] ui: display row as disabled in ds statistics Hannes Laimer
2021-08-30 11:15 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 14/15] ui: show backing device UUID and mount-point in option tab Hannes Laimer
2021-08-30 11:15 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 15/15] ui: add (un)mount button to summary Hannes Laimer
2021-09-01 14:48   ` Dominik Csapak
2021-09-01 14:48 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 proxmox-backup 00/15] (partially)close #3156: Add support for removable datastores Dominik Csapak
2021-09-02  6:09   ` Thomas Lamprecht
2021-09-02  6:18     ` Dominik Csapak
2021-09-02  6:28       ` Thomas Lamprecht [this message]
2021-09-03  9:27   ` Hannes Laimer
2021-09-02  6:25 Dietmar Maurer

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