From: "Fabian Grünbichler" <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>
To: "DERUMIER, Alexandre" <alexandre.derumier@groupe-cyllene.com>,
"pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com" <pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com>
Cc: "w.bumiller@proxmox.com" <w.bumiller@proxmox.com>,
"t.lamprecht@proxmox.com" <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH-SERIES v8 pve-storage/qemu-server] add external qcow2 snapshot support
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:04:26 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2031346726.5791.1752491066605@192.168.2.153> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <719c71b1148846e0cdd7e5c149d8b20146b4d043.camel@groupe-cyllene.com>
> DERUMIER, Alexandre <alexandre.derumier@groupe-cyllene.com> hat am 14.07.2025 10:42 CEST geschrieben:
>
>
> >>6. it's fairly easy to accidentally create qcow2-formatted LVM
> >>volumes, as opposed to the requirement to enable a non-UI storage
> >>option at storage creation time for dir storages, we might want to
> >>add some warning to the UI at least? or we could also guard usage of
> >>the format with a config option..
>
> Personnaly, this don't shock that's much
>
> the external-snapshot option is to distinguished between
> internal|external snapshot.
>
> you can also "accidentally" create a qcow2 file instead a raw file on
> dir storage.
yes, but that one has been tested for a while, the LVM one is new and
still experimental, but that is not obvious from the UI.
> so I think that a warning in the UI is fine enough if qcow2 format is
> selected.
would probably need to go into a few places then (allocating a disk,
moving it, restore of backup - at least?)
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-09 16:21 Alexandre Derumier via pve-devel
2025-07-10 15:09 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH FOLLOW-UP storage 1/3] helpers: make qemu_img* storage config independent Fabian Grünbichler
2025-07-10 15:09 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH FOLLOW-UP storage 2/3] helpers: move qemu_img* to Common module Fabian Grünbichler
2025-07-10 15:09 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH FOLLOW-UP storage 3/3] rename_snapshot: fix parameter checks Fabian Grünbichler
2025-07-14 6:34 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH FOLLOW-UP storage 1/3] helpers: make qemu_img* storage config independent DERUMIER, Alexandre via pve-devel
[not found] ` <6b7eaeb6af6af22ebdd034236e9e88bc1b5e1e3f.camel@groupe-cyllene.com>
2025-07-14 11:02 ` Fabian Grünbichler
2025-07-10 15:13 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH-SERIES v8 pve-storage/qemu-server] add external qcow2 snapshot support Fabian Grünbichler
2025-07-10 15:46 ` DERUMIER, Alexandre via pve-devel
[not found] ` <c6c3457906642a30ddffc0f6b9d28ea6a745ac7c.camel@groupe-cyllene.com>
2025-07-10 16:29 ` Thomas Lamprecht
2025-07-11 12:04 ` DERUMIER, Alexandre via pve-devel
2025-07-14 6:25 ` DERUMIER, Alexandre via pve-devel
2025-07-14 8:18 ` DERUMIER, Alexandre via pve-devel
2025-07-14 8:42 ` DERUMIER, Alexandre via pve-devel
[not found] ` <26badbf66613a89e63eaad8b24dd05567900250b.camel@groupe-cyllene.com>
2025-07-14 11:02 ` Fabian Grünbichler
2025-07-15 4:15 ` DERUMIER, Alexandre via pve-devel
[not found] ` <719c71b1148846e0cdd7e5c149d8b20146b4d043.camel@groupe-cyllene.com>
2025-07-14 11:04 ` Fabian Grünbichler [this message]
2025-07-14 11:11 ` Thomas Lamprecht
2025-07-14 11:15 ` Fabian Grünbichler
2025-07-14 11:27 ` Thomas Lamprecht
2025-07-14 11:46 ` Fabian Grünbichler
2025-07-14 15:12 ` Tiago Sousa via pve-devel
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2025-07-16 15:15 ` Thomas Lamprecht
2025-07-17 8:01 ` DERUMIER, Alexandre via pve-devel
2025-07-17 14:49 ` Tiago Sousa via pve-devel
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2025-07-17 15:08 ` DERUMIER, Alexandre via pve-devel
[not found] ` <47b76678f969ba97926c85af4bf8e50c9dda161d.camel@groupe-cyllene.com>
2025-07-17 15:42 ` Tiago Sousa via pve-devel
[not found] ` <58c2db18-c2c2-4c91-9521-bdb42a302e93@eurotux.com>
2025-07-17 15:53 ` DERUMIER, Alexandre via pve-devel
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