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

Huang Zhiteng winston.d at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 01:35:06 UTC 2016


+1 for this long-waited feature to land in Newton.

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 1:09 AM, Jay S. Bryant <
jsbryant at electronicjungle.net> wrote:

> +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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Huang Zhiteng
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