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From: "Fabian Grünbichler" <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>
To: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>,
	Proxmox VE development discussion <pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server] api: snapshot create/delete/rollback: print log line that mentions snapshot name
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 13:28:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1716982009.12ngpvad63.astroid@yuna.none> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ecf42fea-b04b-4cc8-b496-5305d219c303@proxmox.com>

On May 29, 2024 1:07 pm, Dominik Csapak wrote:
> On 5/29/24 12:09, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
>> On May 29, 2024 11:20 am, Dominik Csapak wrote:
>>> so that an admin can see from the task logs which snapshot was rolled
>>> back/created/removed without the need to look into the journal (to which
>>> the admin might not have access to).
>> 
>> good idea in general, but wouldn't it be better to log it before
>> attempting the operation, so that the context is in the task log
>> irrespective of how a potential error message looks like?
> 
> i'd probably log both

logging the end doesn't give you much (if the name is mentioned earlier
already), since the task already has a status, so it's (heavily) implied
;) but it also doesn't really hurt :)

>> (side note, we might want to think about making the whole snapshot
>> process a bit more verbose? i.e., log the individual parts as well?)
> 
> i noticed that i missed doing that for containers .
> also for some storages there is already output (e.g. ceph logs the
> snapshot progress)
> 
> For a v2 i'd do the logging in 'snapshot_create' etc. in AbstractConfig,
> that should handle both vms and ct, and there we can print between
> phases too
> 
> does that sound ok?

sure!


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      reply	other threads:[~2024-05-29 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-29  9:20 Dominik Csapak
2024-05-29 10:09 ` Fabian Grünbichler
2024-05-29 11:07   ` Dominik Csapak
2024-05-29 11:28     ` Fabian Grünbichler [this message]

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