[openstack-dev] [Cinder] FFE request for RBD replication

Jay S. Bryant jsbryant at electronicjungle.net
Sat Sep 10 17:09:11 UTC 2016


+1 from me.  It is making good progress and is low risk.

-Jay


On 09/09/2016 02:32 PM, Gorka Eguileor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As some of you may know, Jon Bernard (jbernard on IRC) has been working
> on the RBD v2.1 replication implementation [1] for a while, and we would
> like to request a Feature Freeze Exception for that work, as we believe
> it is a good candidate being a low risk change for the integrity of
> the existing functionality in the driver:
>
> - It's non intrusive if it's not enabled (enabled using
>    replication_device configuration option).
> - It doesn't affect existing deployments (disabled by default).
> - Changes are localized to the driver itself (rbd.py) and the driver
>    unit tests file (test_rbd.py).
>
> Jon would have liked to make this request himself, but due to the
> untimely arrival of his newborn baby this is not possible.
>
> For obvious reasons Jon will not be available for a little while, but
> this will not be a problem, as I am well acquainted with the code -and
> I'll be able to reach Jon if necessary- and will be taking care of the
> final steps of the review process of his patch: replying to comments in
> a timely fashion, making changes to the code as required, and answering
> pings on IRC regarding the patch.
>
> Since some people may be interested in testing this functionality during
> the reviewing process -or just for fun- I'll be publishing a post with
> detailed explanation on how to deploy and test this feature as well as
> an automated way to deploy 2 Ceph clusters -linked to be mirroring one
> another-, and one devstack node with everything ready to test the
> functionality (configuration and keys for the Ceph clusters, cinder
> configuration, the latest upstream patch, and a volume type with the
> right configuration).
>
> Please, do not hesitate to ask if there are any questions to or concerns
> related to this request.
>
> Thank you for taking the time to evaluate this request.
>
> Cheers,
> Gorka.
>
> [1]: https://review.openstack.org/333565
>
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