Matt,
To add another scenario and make things even more difficult (sorry (), if the
original volume has snapshots, I don't think you can delete it.
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Riedemann <mriede...@gmail.com>
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Date: Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 14:55
To: "openstack-...@lists.openstack.org" <openstack-...@lists.openstack.org>,
openstack-operators <openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] about rebuild instance booted from volume
On 3/14/2018 3:42 AM, 李杰 wrote:
>
> This is the spec about rebuild a instance booted from
> volume.In the spec,there is a
> question about if we should delete the old root_volume.Anyone who
> is interested in
> booted from volume can help to review this. Any suggestion is
> welcome.Thank you!
> The link is here.
> Re:the rebuild spec:https://review.openstack.org/#/c/532407/
Copying the operators list and giving some more context.
This spec is proposing to add support for rebuild with a new image for
volume-backed servers, which today is just a 400 failure in the API
since the compute doesn't support that scenario.
With the proposed solution, the backing root volume would be deleted and
a new volume would be created from the new image, similar to how boot
from volume works.
The question raised in the spec is whether or not nova should delete the
root volume even if its delete_on_termination flag is set to False. The
semantics get a bit weird here since that flag was not meant for this
scenario, it's meant to be used when deleting the server to which the
volume is attached. Rebuilding a server is not deleting it, but we would
need to replace the root volume, so what do we do with the volume we're
replacing?
Do we say that delete_on_termination only applies to deleting a server
and not rebuild and therefore nova can delete the root volume during a
rebuild?
If we don't delete the volume during rebuild, we could end up leaving a
lot of volumes lying around that the user then has to clean up,
otherwise they'll eventually go over quota.
We need user (and operator) feedback on this issue and what they would
expect to happen.
--
Thanks,
Matt
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