Dear PVE-users,
This is a feature driven release that adds some improvements in the area
of snapshots.
- you can now create snapshots (that was possible since a long time),
but now it is possible to also roll them back. This is limited to the
last snapshot. This is a limitation LINSTOR has because of how ZFS
works/how ZFS snapshots are handled. This might change in the future.
Till then one has to make the destination snapshot the last one (i.e.,
delete the ones in between).
- it is now possible to click the "backup" button of e.g., a running LXC
container and create the backup via a snapshot. That said, while
implementing this we found out that the PVE's built in backup does not
handle disks that are not a multiple of 64K properly, which is very
likely for DRBD devices/disks. This is not a regression, I'd assume
this bug in PVE existed for a long time. For more information see the
upstream bug report[1].
https://www.linbit.com/downloads/connectors/linstor-proxmox-5.1.0.tar.gz
https://github.com/LINBIT/linstor-proxmox/commit/5310292670b6b47fb3f063a2e16dbf0a639f75fe
Regards, rck
[1] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2811
This is a feature driven release that adds some improvements in the area
of snapshots.
- you can now create snapshots (that was possible since a long time),
but now it is possible to also roll them back. This is limited to the
last snapshot. This is a limitation LINSTOR has because of how ZFS
works/how ZFS snapshots are handled. This might change in the future.
Till then one has to make the destination snapshot the last one (i.e.,
delete the ones in between).
- it is now possible to click the "backup" button of e.g., a running LXC
container and create the backup via a snapshot. That said, while
implementing this we found out that the PVE's built in backup does not
handle disks that are not a multiple of 64K properly, which is very
likely for DRBD devices/disks. This is not a regression, I'd assume
this bug in PVE existed for a long time. For more information see the
upstream bug report[1].
https://www.linbit.com/downloads/connectors/linstor-proxmox-5.1.0.tar.gz
https://github.com/LINBIT/linstor-proxmox/commit/5310292670b6b47fb3f063a2e16dbf0a639f75fe
Regards, rck
[1] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2811