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<p class="MsoNormal">At the cinder mid-cycle it was decided that the best way to fix volumes stuck in ‘attaching’ or ‘detaching’ was NOT to fix the broken reset-state command. The doc string and help message for reset-state have been modified to warn the user
that the tool only affects Cinder DB and can cause problems. But, ultimately, a separate command to ‘force-detach’ would be better. I’ve abandoned the original BP/spec for reset-state involving the driver.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have looked at the existing function ‘force-detach’ in Cinder and it seems to work…except that Nova must be involved. Nova uses the BlockDeviceMapping table to keep track of attached volumes and, if Nova is not involved, a force-detach’ed
volume will not be capable of being re-attached.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, my plan is to submit a blueprint + spec for Novaclient to add a ‘force-detach’ command. This is technically fairly simple and only involves stripping away the checks for proper state in Nova, and calling Cinder force-detach. I don’t
plan on asking for an exception to feature freeze, unless there is optimism from the community that this could possible get in for L.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The existing Cinder force-detach calls terminate_connection() and detach_volume(). I assume detach_volume() is covered by the “Volume Detach” minimum feature? I see many drivers have terminate_connection(), but not all. I believe this
will not be a minimum feature, but others may disagree.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">scottda<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">scott.dangelo@hp.com<o:p></o:p></p>
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