[openstack-dev] [Cinder]a question about os-volume_upload_image

Mike Perez thingee at gmail.com
Thu Apr 3 05:55:21 UTC 2014


On 02:58 Thu 03 Apr     , Bohai (ricky) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I use an image to create a cinder volume, I found image's metadata is saved into DB table "volume_glance_metadata".
> 
> But when I use " os-volume_upload_image" to create image from cinder volume, the metadata in "volume_glance_metadata" 
> is not setted back to the newly created image. I can't found the reason for this.
> Anyone can give me a hint?
> 
> I am a newbie for cinder and i apologize if I am missing something very obvious.
> 
> Best regards to you.
> Ricky

Hi Ricky,

The glance metadata is currently only stored for creating new volumes, new
snapshots or backups. It's used for in the volume creation to know if the
volume is bootable.

-- 
Mike Perez



More information about the OpenStack-dev mailing list