[pve-devel] Disk cloning feature for shared lvm storage
    Dietmar Maurer 
    dietmar at proxmox.com
       
    Sat Oct  8 21:26:35 CEST 2011
    
    
  
> > How do you plan to 'clone' a disk? By simply making a copy?
> I think there are various ways. For example lvm snapshot or just create new lvm
> and den dd from the other device.
AFAIK lvm snapshot simply do not work on shared storage, so I would
not consider that an option.
 
> But this can be changed pretty easy if we have the rest ;-)
The first step would be to implement an API to copy a volume in:
https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-storage.git;a=summary
Make yourself familiar with the code first, and feel free to ask more questions here ;-)
- Dietmar
    
    
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