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> 
> >
> >Ideally, from my perspective, Nova would take care of the detach/attach portion
> >and Cinder would only need to take care of imaging the volume.
> 
> Agree. :) And yeah, I pointed this out in the nova spec for volume-backed
> rebuild also. I think nova can basically handle this like it does for shelve
> today, and we'd do something like this:
> 
> 1. disconnect the volume from the host
> 2. create a new empty volume attachment for the volume and instance - this
> is needed so the volume stays 'reserved' while we re-image it
> 3. delete the old volume attachment
> 4. call the new cinder re-image API
> 5. once the volume is available (TODO: how would we know?)

May we can add a "Reimaging" state to the volume? Then Nova could poll for it
to go from that back to Available? Since Nova is driving things, I would be
hesitant to expect and assume that Cinder is appropriately configured to call
back in to Nova.

Or a notification?

Or...?

> 6. re-attach the volume by updating the attachment with the host connector,
> connect on the host, and complete the attachment (marks the volume as in-use
> again)
> 
> -- 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt
> 
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