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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Devs,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is an NFS backend driver for cinder, which supports only limited volume handling features. Specifically, "snapshot" and "cloning" features are missing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Eric Harney has proposed a feature of "NFS driver snapshot" [1][2][3], which was approved on Dec 2014 but not implemented yet.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[1] blueprint <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/nfs-snapshots">
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/nfs-snapshots</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[2] cinder-specs <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/133074/">
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/133074/</a> - merged for Kilo but moved to Liberty<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[3] implementation <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/147186/">
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/147186/</a> - WIP<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As of now [4] nova patch is a blocker for this feature.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have tested this feature by applying [4] nova patch and it is working as per expectation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[4] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/149037/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/149037/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">IMO this is a very useful feature and I want to know communities opinion/direction about getting it merged during liberty time-frame.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks & Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Abhishek Kekane<o:p></o:p></p>
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