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On 09/20/2013 02:47 PM, Michael Still wrote:
> Before https://review.openstack.org/#/c/46867/ if file injection of a
> mandatory file fails, nova just silently ignores the failure, which is
> clearly wrong. However, that review now can't land because its
> revealed another failure in the file injection code via tempest, which
> is...
> 
> Should file injection work for instances which are boot from volume?
> Now that we actually notice injection failures we're now failing to
> boot such instances as file injection for them doesn't work.
> 
> I'm undecided though -- should file injection work for boot from
> volume at all? Or should we just skip file injection for instances
> like this? I'd prefer to see us just support config drive and metadata
> server for these instances, but perhaps I am missing something really
> important.

Well, first of all, I think file injection should DIAF everywhere.

That said, it may be no surprise that I think boot-from-volume should
just do config drive and metadata.