The cinder client supports passing a sort key via the --sort_key argument. The client restricts the sort keys that the user can supply to the following: https://github.com/openstack/python-cinderclient/blob/master/cinderclient/v2/volumes.py#L28-L29 This list of sort keys is not complete. As far I know, all attributes on this class are valid: https://github.com/openstack/cinder/blob/master/cinder/db/sqlalchemy/models.py#L104 I noticed that the 'name' key is incorrect and it should instead be 'display_name'. Before I create a bug/fix to address this, I have the following questions: Does anyone know the rational behind the client restricting the possible sort keys? Why not allow the user to supply any sort key (assuming that invalid keys are gracefully handled)? Note, if you try this out at home, you'll notice that the client table is not actually sorted, fixed under: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/141964/ Thanks, Steven Kaufer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20141217/6465dee6/attachment.html>