[openstack-dev] [nova] locked instances and snaphot

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Wed Jun 18 03:51:06 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Ahmed RAHAL <arahal at iweb.com> wrote:
> Le 2014-06-16 15:28, melanie witt a écrit :

> The more I think about it, the more I get to think that locking is just
> there to avoid mistakes, not voluntary misbehaviour.

I agree. You have a really important instance, so you lock it to avoid
it being accidentally deleted. Its so important you want to take a
snapshot of it, but now with the proposed change you have to unlock it
to do that (risking a delete in the process).

Michael

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