[openstack-dev] [nova] Feature Freeze Exception request

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Feb 10 09:59:31 UTC 2015


On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:55:54AM +0200, Eduard Matei wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to request a FFE for
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/134134/
> 
> It is a change that allows a driver to use type "file" instead of "block"
> for local volumes.
> It was blocked because at that time there was no use for it.
> Now, we have a driver merged which currently returns "loca" for
> driver_volume_type; we would like to return "driver_volume_type": file
> (which is the correct type) which will then result (via this change) in a
> disk type = file in the xml being generated.
> 
> Also, this changeset doesn't remove any code, doesn't overwrite any code,
> only adds a new type of LibvirtVolumeDriver.

I'll sponsor this on the basis that the code is self-contained and so no
risk to existing libvirt features, and more importantly the cinder side
has been merged for Kilo, so it would be a poor message to users if we
did not merge the corresponding Nova half of the feature.

Regards,
Daniel
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