[openstack-dev] [Nova][Cinder] Feature about volume delete protection
sxmatch
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Fri Mar 14 06:20:14 UTC 2014
于 2014-03-14 11:59, Zhangleiqiang (Trump) 写道:
>> From: sxmatch [mailto:sxmatch1986 at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 11:08 AM
>> To: Zhangleiqiang (Trump)
>> Cc: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
>> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Cinder] Feature about volume delete
>> protection
>>
>>
>> 于 2014-03-11 19:24, Zhangleiqiang 写道:
>>>> From: Huang Zhiteng [mailto:winston.d at gmail.com]
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:37 PM
>>>> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
>>>> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Cinder] Feature about volume
>>>> delete protection
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Zhangleiqiang
>>>> <zhangleiqiang at huawei.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> From: Huang Zhiteng [mailto:winston.d at gmail.com]
>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:29 PM
>>>>>> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Cinder] Feature about volume
>>>>>> delete protection
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Zhangleiqiang
>>>>>> <zhangleiqiang at huawei.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Besides the "soft-delete" state for volumes, I think there is need
>>>>>>> for introducing another "fake delete" state for volumes which have
>>>> snapshot.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Current Openstack refuses the delete request for volumes which
>>>>>>> have snapshot. However, we will have no method to limit users to
>>>>>>> only use the specific snapshot other than the original volume ,
>>>>>>> because the original volume is always visible for the users.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So I think we can permit users to delete volumes which have
>>>>>>> snapshots, and mark the volume as "fake delete" state. When all of
>>>>>>> the snapshots of the volume have already deleted, the original
>>>>>>> volume will be removed automatically.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you describe the actual use case for this? I not sure I follow
>>>>>> why operator would like to limit the owner of the volume to only
>>>>>> use specific version of snapshot. It sounds like you are adding
>>>>>> another layer. If that's the case, the problem should be solved at
>>>>>> upper layer
>>>> instead of Cinder.
>>>>> For example, one tenant's volume quota is five, and has 5 volumes
>>>>> and 1
>>>> snapshot already. If the data in base volume of the snapshot is
>>>> corrupted, the user will need to create a new volume from the
>>>> snapshot, but this operation will be failed because there are already
>>>> 5 volumes, and the original volume cannot be deleted, too.
>>>> Hmm, how likely is it the snapshot is still sane when the base volume
>>>> is corrupted?
>>> If the snapshot of volume is COW, then the snapshot will be still sane when
>> the base volume is corrupted.
>> So, if we delete volume really, just keep snapshot alive, is it possible? User
>> don't want to use this volume at now, he can take a snapshot and then delete
>> volume.
>>
> If we delete volume really, the COW snapshot cannot be used. But if the data in base volume is corrupt, we can use the snapshot normally or create an available volume from the snapshot.
>
> The "COW" means copy-on-write, when the data-block in base volume is being to written, this block will first copy to the snapshot.
>
> Hope it helps.
Thanks for your explain,it's very helpful.
>> If he want it again, can create volume from this snapshot.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>>> Even if this case is possible, I don't see the 'fake delete' proposal
>>>> is the right way to solve the problem. IMO, it simply violates what
>>>> quota system is designed for and complicates quota metrics
>>>> calculation (there would be actual quota which is only visible to
>>>> admin/operator and an end-user facing quota). Why not contact
>>>> operator to bump the upper limit of the volume quota instead?
>>> I had some misunderstanding on Cinder's snapshot.
>>> "Fake delete" is common if there is "chained snapshot" or "snapshot tree"
>> mechanism. However in cinder, only volume can make snapshot but snapshot
>> cannot make snapshot again.
>>> I agree with your bump upper limit method.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your explanation.
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any thoughts? Welcome any advices.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ----------
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> zhangleiqiang
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best Regards
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From: John Griffith [mailto:john.griffith at solidfire.com]
>>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 8:38 PM
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Cinder] Feature about volume
>>>>>>> delete protection
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:13 PM, John Garbutt
>>>>>>> <john at johngarbutt.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 6 March 2014 08:50, zhangyu (AI) <zhangyu11 at huawei.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> It seems to be an interesting idea. In fact, a China-based public
>>>>>>>> IaaS, QingCloud, has provided a similar feature to their virtual
>>>>>>>> servers. Within 2 hours after a virtual server is deleted, the
>>>>>>>> server owner can decide whether or not to cancel this deletion
>>>>>>>> and re-cycle that "deleted" virtual server.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> People make mistakes, while such a feature helps in urgent cases.
>>>>>>>> Any idea here?
>>>>>>> Nova has soft_delete and restore for servers. That sounds similar?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> John
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>> From: Zhangleiqiang [mailto:zhangleiqiang at huawei.com]
>>>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 2:19 PM
>>>>>>>> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
>>>>>>>> Subject: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Cinder] Feature about volume
>>>>>>>> delete protection
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Current openstack provide the delete volume function to the user.
>>>>>>>> But it seems there is no any protection for user's delete operation
>> miss.
>>>>>>>> As we know the data in the volume maybe very important and valuable.
>>>>>>>> So it's better to provide a method to the user to avoid the
>>>>>>>> volume delete miss.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Such as:
>>>>>>>> We can provide a safe delete for the volume.
>>>>>>>> User can specify how long the volume will be delay
>>>>>>>> deleted(actually
>>>>>>>> deleted) when he deletes the volume.
>>>>>>>> Before the volume is actually deleted, user can cancel the delete
>>>>>>>> operation and find back the volume.
>>>>>>>> After the specified time, the volume will be actually deleted by
>>>>>>>> the system.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Any thoughts? Welcome any advices.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Best regards to you.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ----------
>>>>>>>> zhangleiqiang
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Best Regards
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think a soft-delete for Cinder sounds like a neat idea. You
>>>>>>> should file a BP that we can target for Juno.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> John
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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