[pve-devel] [PATCH manager 5/5] ceph pools: allow to create erasure code pools

[Thomas Lamprecht]

On 29.04.22 09:33, Aaron Lauterer wrote:
> 
> On 4/28/22 16:32, Dominik Csapak wrote:
>> is there a specific reason why you still force the autocreation
>> of the storage? i don't mind really, but giving a reason
>> would be nice. if there is no reason, i'd drop that since
>> the user can specify it anyway and adding one manually
>> should also not too hard..
> 
> I guess I could have been more explicit in the commit message. I decided to always create the storage config to have the coupling of ec pool and replicated metadata pool in place. We currently only have the RBD use case for EC pools in PVE itself and otherwise people might forget about it and any RBD image created without the data-pool parameter configured will be placed in the replicated pool.
> 

IMO still confusing to enforce it, default to true can be Ok, but that's
something different than hard-enforcing it always, would surely lead to a bug
report sooner or later.

Oh, and for the CLI I'd like to see this as separate command, i.e.:

pveceph ec-pool create
pveceph ec-pool destroy

That can then have the expanded options format, which can be nicer to use on CLI,
and also default to add-storage there already.


small ot/general nit: can you please use a text-width of 80 (or even 100) cc on
the mailing list, my MTA is configured to show text as is to ensure patches are
seen correctly, so long replies require horizontal scrolling