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creation of non empty disks #41

Open yuval-k opened 7 years ago

yuval-k commented 7 years ago

We are trying to add integration of photon to Unik, so we can deploy unikernels to the photon platform. Part of the features that unik provides to the unikernels is attaching an volume with existing files. This feature is currently not available in photon.

Ideally we want the ability to upload an existing disk, similar to how you can upload an existing image.

Is it something that you plan to add soon? If not, can you share some pointers on how this should be done, and we will be glad to submit a pull request once we implement the feature.

Thanks!

govint commented 7 years ago

Another use case is to be able to create a disk from an existing disk that was either uploaded earlier or created and used. Some thing like a snapshot of an existing disk. For example, user wants a replica for backup of an existing disk.