[openstack-dev] [cinder][nova] about re-image the volume

Jay S Bryant jungleboyj at gmail.com
Sat Mar 31 00:01:54 UTC 2018



On 3/29/2018 8:36 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> On 3/29/2018 6:50 PM, Sean McGinnis wrote:
>> May we can add a "Reimaging" state to the volume? Then Nova could 
>> poll for it
>> to go from that back to Available?
>
> That would be fine with me, and maybe similar to how 'extending' and 
> 'retyping' work for an attached volume?
>
> Nova wouldn't wait for the volume to go to 'available', we don't want 
> it to go to 'available', we'd just wait for it to go back to 
> 'reserved'. During a rebuild the instance still needs to keep the 
> volume logically attached to it so another instance can't grab it.
>
This all sounds reasonable to me.

Thanks for hashing it out guys!

Jay



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