[openstack-dev] [Nova][Manila] Nova API to attach/detach file volume/share

Steve Gordon sgordon at redhat.com
Tue Oct 27 19:37:42 UTC 2015


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shinobu Kinjo" <shinobu.kj at gmail.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> 
> Sorry, using vsock is:
> 
> -1
> 
> Need more discussion.

Can you elaborate?

-Steve

> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Sage Weil <sage at newdream.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Ben Swartzlander wrote:
> > > On 10/25/2015 01:25 PM, Sage Weil wrote:
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > >
> > > > We're currently working on an improved mechanism for plumbing file
> > access
> > > > into a VM or container and in most cases some interaction and
> > > > configuration on the hypervisor/host is required to make it happen.
> > The
> > > > goal is to create something that generalizes beyond the current NFS and
> > > > CIFS-only assumptions that are baked into the current crop of Manila
> > > > drivers.
> > > >
> > > > The current target is to use the new VSOCK zero-configuration sockets,
> > > > which I will be talking about at the summit on Wednesday:
> > > >
> > > >   - mount distributed fs on host, export via knfsd to guest over VSOCK
> > > >   - run Ganesha with distributed fs FSAL on host, export to guest over
> > VSOCK
> > >
> > > NFS-over-vsock is a VERY interesting idea. I understood that it wasn't
> > > implemented yet in Linux... If that's no longer true then I'm excited to
> > find
> > > a way to make it work.
> >
> > There is a lot of enabling work, but Stefan Hajnoczi has patches in flight
> > for qemu and the Linux NFS client+server, and Matt Benjamin is adding
> > Ganesha support and will work on getting the needed nfs-utils changes in
> > place.  It'll take a bit for this all to land upstream and in supported
> > distros, but we think the overall stack in very promising!
> >
> > The challenge, I suspect, will be getting Manila and Nova to orchestrate
> > it properly...
> >
> > If you're at the summit, I'll be talking a bit about this on Wednesday at
> > 4:40 (http://sched.co/4A03).
> >
> > sage
> >
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Steve Gordon, RHCE
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