[openstack-dev] [nova][cinder] create server from a volume snapshot, 180 reties is sufficient?

Mike Perez thingee at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 19:58:31 UTC 2014


On 23:58 Tue 08 Apr     , Lingxian Kong wrote:
> hi there:
> 
> According to the patch https://review.openstack.org/#/c/80619/, Nova
> will wait for volume creation for 180s, the config option is rejected by
> Russell and Nikola. But the reason I raise it up is, we found the server
> creation failed due to timeout in our deployment, with LVM as Cinder
> backend.
> 
> So, I wander is 180s really suitable here? Are there some guidences
> about when should we add an option? But at least, we should not avoid an
> option, just because of the existing overwhelming number of them, right?
> 
> Thoughts?

It looks like this was a temporary accepted solution and the long term solution
is with event callbacks [1].

[1] - https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/admin-event-callback-api

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Mike Perez



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