Am 25.07.24 um 15:11 schrieb Fiona Ebner: > Am 25.07.24 um 11:48 schrieb Max Carrara: >> For the specific types we can always then provide helper functions that >> handle common cases that implementors can use. >> >> Extending on my namespace idea above, those helpers could then land in >> e.g. `PVE::Backup::Provider::Common`, `PVE::Backup::Provider::Common::LXC`, >> etc. >> > > Could you give an example for such a helper? I rather feel like things > like libnbd will be that, i.e. for accessing the NBD export, not sure if > we can create common helpers that would benefit multiple providers, each > has their own backend they'll need to talk to after all and might have > quite different needs.
Actually, this just gave me an idea (not for a helper method though :P). We can provide a simpler mechanism than NBD, by just exposing the block device with qemu-nbd ourselves first and also reading the bitmap ourselves first, then passing the path to the block device and the bitmap info to the provider. _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
