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no-senders; approved; loop; banned-address; header-match-devel.lists.libvirt.org-0; emergency; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.10 Precedence: list List-Id: Development discussions about the libvirt library & tools Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: Peter Krempa via Devel Reply-To: Peter Krempa X-ZohoMail-DKIM: fail (Header signature does not verify) X-ZM-MESSAGEID: 1773073962406154100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Peter Krempa Add a note stating that pool contents and metadata are not auto-updated when the pool is modified outside of libvirt. Closes: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/work_items/749 Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark --- docs/formatstorage.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/formatstorage.rst b/docs/formatstorage.rst index 9d9a4143eb..7ed57732af 100644 --- a/docs/formatstorage.rst +++ b/docs/formatstorage.rst @@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ attribute ``type``, which is one of ``dir``, ``fs``, ``n= etfs``, ``disk``, ``iscsi-direct`` ( :since:`since 4.7.0` ). This corresponds to the storage backend drivers listed further along in this document. + .. note:: + Any modification of the storage pool outside of libvirt or on a different + host for shared storage pools may not update the cached volume or pool + metadata. The pool metadata can be refreshed by calling + ``virsh pool-refresh POOLNAME`` or by the + `virStoragePoolRefresh `__ API. + Storage pool general metadata ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --=20 2.53.0