[pve-devel] [PATCH] add with-local-disks option for live storage migration

[Wolfgang Bumiller]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 08:19:29AM +0100, Alexandre DERUMIER wrote:
> Thanks Wolfgang,
> 
> 
> >>Basically storage plugins should have to define 
> >>- a set of formats they can export as and import from 
> >>- whether these formats can include snapshots 
> >>- a priority 
> 
> that's exactly what I have in mind.

In that case... (see below)

> 
> >>- possibly other things? (sparse/zero-detection/local sepcial cases to 
> >>use 'cp'...?) 
> 
> I think we could add also special case, like ceph rbd copy for example.
> 
> 
> >>(I'll start polishing up the documentation and push some code into a 
> >>git repo soon-ish...) 
> 
> Ok Great. I'll wait a little bit for your patches .

There's no need to wait if you're interested and have the time to work
on this part. The pve-storage part itself can actually be worked on
already, and the cases we have now could be converted.

New cases can be added later. The code I'm working on is an independent
tool which could then be integrated into the storage import/export API
after that API has been introduced.