> > > Above container management toolkit 'pct' already supports drbd, and it > > > would > > > be really cool to have snapshots, so that we can make snapshot and > > > snapshot backups ;-) > > The same should be easily possible for KVM, too. > > Yes, but we do not need that for KVM backup purposes, because we have > a better method with KVM. May I ask which one?
> We do not want to modify the snapshot. We only want read-only access. Oh, okay. > > > We can extend the storage API with 'activate_snapshot_volume()' and > > > 'deactivate_snapshot_volume()' if required? > > Well, perhaps. > > > > Would that make the snapshot itself available for access? > > there must be a way toö access snapshot data - else we cannot > (obviously) make a snapshot backup. It is up to the storage driver to > implement that. > > > What if the > > snapshot data is accessible only on another node and not on the current > > one? > > Well, the storage driver needs to solve that problem... Okay, so we might need the activate_snapshot_volume() and deactivate_snapshot_volume() calls, to make the snapshot data available on the node calling the function. Thanks for the quick answers! _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
