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On 11/8/2017 12:24 PM, Michael Still wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a really really long time ago (think 2011), we added support in Nova for 
> configuring the mkfs commands that are run for new ephemeral disks using 
> the virt_mkfs command. The current implementation is in 
> nova/virt/disk/api.py for your reading pleasure.
> 
> I'm battling a little with how to move this code to privsep, because I 
> have resisted providing any method which just takes a command line and 
> runs it with escalated permissions, as I feel this defeats the purpose 
> of privsep.
> 
> I could just pickup all the command line parsing code and move it into 
> privsep, but I am left wondering if anyone actually uses this 
> functionality, or if we should just deprecate it all?
> 
> I'd appreciate your thoughts.
> 
> Michael
> 
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Let's deprecate it, put a warning in the logs if it's used in Queens, 
deprecation release note and then remove it in Rocky.

Does that work for you?

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Thanks,

Matt