Cloud-Native distributed storage built on and for Kubernetes

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AI Summary: This GitHub issue reports a misleading log message "setting is not synced (true)" in the Longhorn instance manager controller. This warning appears when a new instance manager pod is being created (i.e., the pod doesn't exist yet), incorrectly suggesting that a 'danger zone' setting is not applied. The proposed solution is to correct this log message to be more accurate or to stop printing it entirely when the pod does not exist, as it's a normal state during pod creation.

Complexity: 1/5
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AI Summary: Backport the improvement from issue #10085 (checking backup target availability before creating backups) to the Longhorn v1.9.1 release branch. This involves reviewing the code changes in #10085, adapting them for the v1.9.1 branch, testing the changes thoroughly to ensure no regressions, and documenting the changes.

Complexity: 4/5
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AI Summary: The task is to fix a bug in the Longhorn documentation where a provided YAML example for creating backups fails due to missing metadata labels. The solution involves either updating the documentation to include the necessary labels or modifying the Longhorn mutator webhook to automatically add these labels based on the provided snapshot name. A workaround is already provided in the issue.

Complexity: 4/5
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AI Summary: The task is to fix a bug in the Longhorn CLI where the automatically generated documentation is overwritten by the `make` command. The solution involves moving the relevant documentation content from the `docs` directory into the `cmd` directory's Go code, ensuring that the documentation is generated correctly from the code itself, preventing overwrites.

Complexity: 3/5
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AI Summary: Update Longhorn's documentation to include instructions on how to identify the disaster recovery (DR) volume associated with a given Persistent Volume (PV). This involves adding a section detailing the steps to retrieve the PVC name from a PV, then the Longhorn volume name from the PVC, and finally, using kubectl and jq commands to find the DR volume name based on the source volume.

Complexity: 3/5
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