[pve-devel] [PATCH storage] plugin: nfs, cifs: use volume qemu snapshot methods from dir plugin

Friedrich Weber f.weber at proxmox.com
Thu Jul 31 10:24:52 CEST 2025


Taking an offline snapshot of a VM on an NFS/CIFS storage with
snapshot-as-volume-chain currently creates a volume-chain snapshot as
expected, but taking an online snapshot unexpectedly creates a qcow2
snapshot. This was also reported in the forum [1].

The reason is that the NFS/CIFS plugins inherit the method
volume_qemu_snapshot_method from the Plugin base class, whereas they
actually behave similarly to the Directory plugin. To fix this,
implement the method for the NFS/CIFS plugins and let it call the
Directory plugin's implementation.

[1] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/168619/post-787374

Signed-off-by: Friedrich Weber <f.weber at proxmox.com>
---

Notes:
    I'm not 100% sure I've correctly grasped volume_qemu_snapshot_method,
    so please double-check my reasoning.

 src/PVE/Storage/CIFSPlugin.pm | 4 ++++
 src/PVE/Storage/NFSPlugin.pm  | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/PVE/Storage/CIFSPlugin.pm b/src/PVE/Storage/CIFSPlugin.pm
index 35a1a3b..5b35daf 100644
--- a/src/PVE/Storage/CIFSPlugin.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/Storage/CIFSPlugin.pm
@@ -331,4 +331,8 @@ sub get_import_metadata {
     return PVE::Storage::DirPlugin::get_import_metadata(@_);
 }
 
+sub volume_qemu_snapshot_method {
+    return PVE::Storage::DirPlugin::volume_qemu_snapshot_method(@_);
+}
+
 1;
diff --git a/src/PVE/Storage/NFSPlugin.pm b/src/PVE/Storage/NFSPlugin.pm
index b416703..4cc02c9 100644
--- a/src/PVE/Storage/NFSPlugin.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/Storage/NFSPlugin.pm
@@ -241,4 +241,8 @@ sub get_import_metadata {
     return PVE::Storage::DirPlugin::get_import_metadata(@_);
 }
 
+sub volume_qemu_snapshot_method {
+    return PVE::Storage::DirPlugin::volume_qemu_snapshot_method(@_);
+}
+
 1;
-- 
2.47.2





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