From: Fabian Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>,
Proxmox VE development discussion <pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [pve-devel] partially-applied: [PATCH-SERIES] partially fix #2285: extend Diskmanage to also list partitions
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 08:58:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca5ba6bd-23b8-cc62-740f-1d808f26e2e8@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <074692d5-dbac-2577-18b4-6df39466a7f4@proxmox.com>
Am 06.02.21 um 14:13 schrieb Thomas Lamprecht:
> On 26.01.21 12:45, Fabian Ebner wrote:
>> and fix some other little things along the way (see patches #1, #4, #9).
>>
>> Mostly re-uses existing functionality, but refactors it, so it can be re-used
>> for partitions as well. New is the detection of filesystems via lsblk and the
>> detection of more PVE-relevant partuuids.
>>
>> In the UI, the current list is replaced by a treepanel including the partitions.
>>
>> This series does not yet make it possible to select partitons for storage
>> creation for certain types, which is one of the parts of bug #2285. I felt
>> like this series was getting rather big already and that there was more
>> discussion to be had about that and it can always be done as a follow-up series.
>> The usage of a partition currently always defaults to 'partition'. A good
>> heuristic to find out when a partition is unused would be needed and/or good
>> ways to warn the user and ask if they're sure they have the correct partition.
>> This also ties in to the proposed feature of allowing users to wipe disks under
>> certain conditions.
>>
>
>
> Applied storage and manager patches, thanks!
>
> For widget toolkit I'm wondering about backward compatibility towards older
> API daemons still running and other products - you mentioned PBS so I guess
> you tested it?
>
No, sorry, I missed this. Because of the new parameter in the API call
it's not backwards compatible. I'll send a v2 for those patches and make
sure it's backwards compatible.
> Also, the Type column for partitions shouldn't be "unknown" but rather
> "partition", or even "GPT Partition"/"MBR Partition" or the like.
>
And I'll also add a patch for this.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-26 11:45 [pve-devel] " Fabian Ebner
2021-01-26 11:45 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH storage 01/14] Disks: return correct journal disk candidates Fabian Ebner
2021-01-26 11:45 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH storage 02/14] Diskmanage: replace closure with direct hash access Fabian Ebner
2021-01-26 11:45 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH storage 03/14] Diskmanage: refactor and rename get_parttype_info Fabian Ebner
2021-01-26 11:45 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH storage 04/14] Diskmanage: also check for filesystem type when determining usage Fabian Ebner
2021-01-26 11:45 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH storage 05/14] Diskmanage: introduce get_sysdir_size helper Fabian Ebner
2021-01-26 11:45 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH storage 06/14] Diskmanage: collect partitions in hash Fabian Ebner
2021-01-26 11:45 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH storage 07/14] Diskmanage: introduce usage helper Fabian Ebner
2021-01-26 11:45 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH storage 08/14] Diskmanage: also detect BIOS boot, EFI and ZFS reserved type partitions Fabian Ebner
2021-01-26 11:45 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH storage 09/14] Diskmanage: introduce ceph info helper Fabian Ebner
2021-01-26 11:45 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH storage 10/14] Diskmanage: save OSD information for individual partitions Fabian Ebner
2021-01-26 11:45 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH storage 11/14] Diskmanage: also include partitions with get_disks if flag is set Fabian Ebner
2021-01-26 11:45 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH manager 12/14] api: Ceph: add reminder to remove 'disks' call Fabian Ebner
2021-01-26 11:45 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH widget-toolkit 13/14] convert disk list to disk tree including the partitions Fabian Ebner
2021-01-26 11:45 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH widget-toolkit 14/14] move DiskList.js from grid/ to panel/ Fabian Ebner
2021-02-06 13:13 ` [pve-devel] partially-applied: [PATCH-SERIES] partially fix #2285: extend Diskmanage to also list partitions Thomas Lamprecht
2021-02-08 7:58 ` Fabian Ebner [this message]
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