[pve-devel] [PATCH v2 storage 4/5] disk reassign: add not implemented yet message to storages

[Aaron Lauterer]

On 9/3/20 9:58 AM, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> wouldn't it make more sense to implement it in Dir/NFS/CIFSPlugin, and
> add this 'implement me' into Plugin itself? otherwise this breaks
> external plugins. also, would it make sense to add a feature for this so
> that we can check in the calling code with a meaningful error message
> before attempting and die-ing?

The storage plugins are a bit of a mess hierarchically. The base plugin (Plugin.pm) implements quite a few methods for the dir based plugins (dir, nfs, cifs) like `find_free_diskname` for example.
The other plugins overwrite these methods.

If we want to do it properly and to avoid code duplication, we should probably add another class in between to which me move the common file based operations which are used by all the dir based plugins.

Plugin.pm
     BaseDirPlugin.pm
         DirPlugin.pm
         NFSPlugin.pm
         CIFSPlugin.pm


Having the reassigning as additional feature sounds good. I will try that. But this will need