[pve-devel] storage plugins: what is plugindata()->{content}[1]

[Fabian Grünbichler]

> Roland Kammerer via pve-devel <pve-devel at lists.proxmox.com> hat am 07.02.2025 13:34 CET geschrieben:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 10:18:42AM +0100, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> > 
> > > Roland Kammerer via pve-devel <pve-devel at lists.proxmox.com> hat am 07.02.2025 10:02 CET geschrieben:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > rather simple question I guess, but I could not find the answer in
> > > https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage_Plugin_Development and linked
> > > documents and looks like my grep foo is lacking today, so here we go:
> > > I guess I know what the first hash in the 'content' array is, but what
> > > is the second? Actually, why is there a second one?
> > > 
> > > Storage/LVMPlugin.pm:
> > > content => [ {images => 1, rootdir => 1}, { images => 1 }]
> > > 
> > > vs.
> > > 
> > > Storage/LvmThinPlugin.pm:
> > > content => [ {images => 1, rootdir => 1}, { images => 1, rootdir => 1}]
> > > 
> > > Best, rck
> > 
> > the first one defines the allowed/valid content types, the second the default one(s):
> 
> thanks Fabian and Fiona, that explains it.
> 
> > we are working on improving the docs and cleaning all of this up!
> 
> that is great news, even after maintaining a plugin for some time it
> usually takes a deep dive into some core code to actually understand
> some of the API. If there is then something to review or give feedback
> from an external plugin dev's point of view feel free to explicitly ping
> me.

thank you for that offer, it is appreciated!
Fabian