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Thanks for the write up Jay. This is useful.

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On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:50:38AM -0500, Jay S. Bryant wrote:
> All,
> 
> I wanted to follow up on the e-mail thread [1] on Cloning support in
> the NFS driver.  The purpose of this e-mail is to provide the plan
> for the NFS driver going forward as I see it.
> 
> First, I am aware that the driver has gone quite some time without
> care and feeding.  For a number of reasons, the Public Cloud team
> within IBM is currently dependent upon the NFS driver working
> properly for the cloud environment we are building.  Given our
> current dependence on the driver we are planning on picking up the
> driver and maintaining it.
> 
> The first step in this process was getting the existing patch that
> adds snapshot support for NFS [2] rebased.  I did this work a couple
> of weeks ago and also got all the unit tests working for the unit
> test environment on the master branch.  I now see that it is in
> merge conflict again, I plan to continue to keep the patch
> up-to-date.
> 
> Erlon has been investigating issues with attaching snapshots.  It
> appears that this may be related to AppArmor running on the system
> where the VM is running and attachment is being attempted.  I am
> hoping to look into the other questions posed in the patch review in
> the next week or two.
> 
> The next step is to create a dependent patch, upon the snapshot
> patch, to implement cloning.  I am planning to also undertake this
> work.  I am assuming that getting the cloning support in place
> shouldn't be too difficult once snapshots are working as it will be
> just a matter of using the support from the remotefs driver.
> 
> The last piece of work we have in flight is working on adding QoS
> support to the NFS driver.  We have the following spec proposed to
> get that work started: [3]
> 
> So, we are in the process of bringing the NFS driver up to good
> standing.  During this process we would greatly appreciate reviews
> and input from those of you who have previously worked on the driver
> in order to expedite integration of the necessary changes. I feel it
> is in the best interest of the community to get the driver updated
> and supported given that it is the 4th most used driver according to
> our user survey.  I think it would not look good to our users if it
> were to suddenly be removed.
> 
> Thanks to all of your for your support in this effort!
> 
> Jay
> 
> [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-August/102193.html
> 
> [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/147186/
> 
> [3] https://review.openstack.org/361456
> 
> 
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