[pve-devel] [PATCH pve-storage v1 2/3] plugin: remove needless inequality check when creating content subdirs

[Fiona Ebner]

Am 05.12.25 um 4:44 PM schrieb Max R. Carrara:
> `$subdir` is a subdirectory of `$path`, so the variables are never
> equal. Even if they were equal for some reason, calling `mkpath` here
> wouldn't fail or be otherwise dangerous.
> 
> Note that even if the user happened to configure an empty path for a
> given content subdirectory, `get_subdir` would still return "$path/",
> which is obviously not equal to `$path`.

Note that a third-party plugin might return the very same value, so the
commit message is inaccurate. I do agree the check can be removed.

> 
> Therefore, remove this check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Max R. Carrara <m.carrara at proxmox.com>
> ---
>  src/PVE/Storage/Plugin.pm | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/PVE/Storage/Plugin.pm b/src/PVE/Storage/Plugin.pm
> index 65f2551..617b0f8 100644
> --- a/src/PVE/Storage/Plugin.pm
> +++ b/src/PVE/Storage/Plugin.pm
> @@ -1919,7 +1919,7 @@ sub activate_storage {
>                  || ($vtype eq 'backup' && defined($scfg->{content}->{'rootdir'}))
>              ) {
>                  my $subdir = $class->get_subdir($scfg, $vtype);
> -                mkpath $subdir if $subdir ne $path;
> +                mkpath $subdir;
>              }
>          }
>      }