[DRBD-user] Linstor-Proxmox plugin 3.0.2-1 on PVE 5.2-11

[Roland Kammerer]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 01:18:25PM +0100, Wolfgang Bumiller wrote:
> pve-storage >= 5.0-31 (on pvetest currently) received new methods to
> request a path to a block device node explicitly for storages which can
> distinguish between "URLs" (eg. rbd:pool/name) where qemu handles the
> connection and protocol and local devices (eg. using the kernel's `krbd`
> module). This is currently mostly to avoid the need to have separate
> storages for KVM and lxc for eg. ceph.
> 
> There's currently no "default" fallback to just calling path(), therefore
> the ABI version was bumped.
> 
> Depending on whether other storage operations need a device available
> and mapped into /dev a storage plugin may now choose to defer doing this
> from activate_storage() to map_volume(). Otherwise, it *should* be
> sufficient to just call path() from map_volume() and do nothing in
> unmap_volume() for many storages.
> 
> https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-storage.git;a=commit;h=40d698932e27ee94b5fa06330dbf07bc5d2815cc

Hi Wolfgang,

thanks for the detailed description, makes sense, we will adapt the
plugin accordingly.

May I ask how packages from your "pvetest" transition into stable? Will
this hit us very soon, or on the next major release (PVE 6.0).

Regards, rck