[pve-devel] Storage plugin questions

[Fiona Ebner]

Am 18.03.25 um 11:32 schrieb Max Schettler via pve-devel:
> - is it possible to integrate with the webinterface, to allow creation of a custom storage provider from there, instead of the CLI?

Not yet and we can't give a timeline/promises, but others requested this
as well, see:
https://lore.proxmox.com/pve-devel/D8E8OZGX1HI7.QH6MQS4GLOTI@proxmox.com/

> - when an image is deleted, are derived snapshots supposed to be removed as well? Depending on the storage type this is a technical necessity, but if not, should it still be done? From the perspective of the storage provider it'd be difficult to prevent stale snapshots of deleted VMs to persist.

Yes, storage snapshots (the ones created via volume_snapshot()) in
Proxmox VE belong to the volume they are created with. And removing the
volume should also remove those snapshots.

Best Regards,
Fiona