[libvirt] [PATCH] rbd: Remove snapshots if the FORCED flag has been provided
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Thu Oct 15 08:44:35 UTC 2015
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:28:39AM +0200, Wido den Hollander wrote:
> When a RBD volume has snapshots it can not be removed.
>
> This patch introduces a new flag to force volume removal,
> VIR_STORAGE_VOL_DELETE_FORCED.
>
> With this flag any existing snapshots will be removed prior
> to removing the volume.
>
> No existing mechanism in libvirt allowed us to pass such information,
> so that's why a new flag was introduced.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wido den Hollander <wido at widodh.nl>
> ---
> include/libvirt/libvirt-storage.h | 1 +
> src/storage/storage_backend_rbd.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/libvirt/libvirt-storage.h b/include/libvirt/libvirt-storage.h
> index 453089e..36ff979 100644
> --- a/include/libvirt/libvirt-storage.h
> +++ b/include/libvirt/libvirt-storage.h
> @@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ typedef enum {
> typedef enum {
> VIR_STORAGE_VOL_DELETE_NORMAL = 0, /* Delete metadata only (fast) */
> VIR_STORAGE_VOL_DELETE_ZEROED = 1 << 0, /* Clear all data to zeros (slow) */
> + VIR_STORAGE_VOL_DELETE_FORCED = 2, /* Force removal of volume, even if in use */
Long term I could imagine there will be a number of reasons why
it might be forbidden to delete a volume by default. It would be
nice to selectively override these reasons. FORCED is quite a
generic name for a specific action. So how about naming it
VOL_DELETE_WITH_SNAPSHOTS
Regards,
Daniel
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