[pve-devel] New Feature: ZFS 'generic' support for LUN management.

[Dietmar Maurer]

> This is just an additional plugin under LunCmd which allows developing lun
> plugins without depending on proxmox's release schedle. And which canbe
> used in cases where the plugin to be developed is going to be too specific to
> be usefull for others.
> The way I see it, ending up with a lot of specific lun plugins into proxmox's
> code base would entail a lot of overhead, specially when it comes to add
> features or improve the zfs plugin, as you have to dig into one and each of
> the lun plugins behind the zfs plugin. Something not ease, as not every
> developer have access to every kind of lun system.
> Having a generic lun plugin like the one I am proposing allows third parties to
> develop their own lun driver without imposing an extra overhead on
> proxomox (as a company) nor on proxomox's developers/community. But it
> also allows developing and improving such drivers independently of
> proxmox's release schedule. (Ie. Not having to wait for the next release to
> incorporate new fixes into the lun management code).

I think you should improve the current plugin code to dynamically load/find new
plugins. That way you will have all above advantages, without defining a
"plugin inside a plugin" infrastructure.