[pve-devel] The "bug" in pve reflecting ZFSplugin

[Dietmar Maurer]

> I think I am about to circle in the problem regarding ZFSplugin. To me it
> seems like the gui makes a request to the backend and then sits waiting for
> a response for a distinct time and if no response is given within than distinct
> time the request will be resent for a given number of times. If a response is
> returned within that time frame everything is ok but if no response is given
> within that time frame a code 500 (communication error) is raised.
> 
> Since running a remote request over SSH obviously will take longer than a
> running it local I was wondering if the timeout the gui is using before
> making a new request in some way could be increased by say 10 secs either
> global or per request? Increasing the timeout 10 secs needed for especially
> the request for creating a new volume (image) since this requires at least 4
> successive remote requests.

Honestly, I am not willing to add anything that add such long delays.

If ssh does not work (a simply request should respond within millisecond), you need to find another solution.