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Overall, this looks good.

Your alternate implementation misses LVM support, and leaves an unused file behind in the instance directory.  Other than that, it's acceptable for a late-stage change, IMO.

Best Regards,
Solly

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Still" <mikal at stillhq.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 5:07:58 AM
> Subject: [openstack-dev] Reverting recent refactorings of RBD support for	config drives
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Today I encountered bug 1369627 [1] as I trolled the status of release
> critical bugs, which appears to be fall out from the decision to
> implement adding support for config drives stored in RBD. While I have
> no problem with that being at thing we do, I'm concerned by the way it
> was implemented -- the image caching code for libvirt was being used
> to "cache" the config drive, and then upload it to ceph as a side
> effect of the image caching mechanism.
> 
> I'd prefer we don't to it that way, and given its introduced as
> security bug, I have proposed the following reverts:
> 
>  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/123070/
>  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/123071/
>  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/123072/
> 
> Now, because I want to move us forward, I've also proposed an
> alternate implementation which achieves the same thing without using
> the caching code:
> 
>  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/123073/
> 
> The new implementation only supports RBD, but that's mostly because
> its the only image storage backend in the libvirt driver where it
> makes immediate sense to do this sort of thing. I think this code
> could do with a refactor, but I was attempting to produce the minimum
> functional implementation given where we are in the release cycle.
> 
> Persuant to our revert policy [2], I am asking cores to take a look at
> these patches as soon as possible.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
> 
> 1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1369627
> 2:
> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/doc/source/devref/policies.rst
> 
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