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Hello,

We are trying to trigger an fsfreeze via a cinder backup or snapshot. We
confirmed that the fsfreeze hooks are actually called with a nova
snapshot with `/var/log/qga-fsfreeze-hook.log` in the VM, but we can't
achieve the same thing with a cinder backup/snapshot attached to the
same instance. We are using Wallaby, libvirt, RBD for cinder volumes and
RBD as well for cinder-backup.

According to this (old) spec [0], cinder should call the `quiesce()`
method in nova during backup/snapshot. We looked in the cinder code and
couldn't find any clear evidence that this method is actually called by
cinder (but we may have missed something). We added some debug messages
on quiesce/can_quiesce/require_quiesce/... in
`nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py` and they are never called with a cinder
backup/snapshot in our setup while they are (and succeed) if we do a
nova snapshot.

We are starting to suspect that something is missing in cinder, but it
could very well be a problem with our setup as well... Does someone use
this feature or know if it should be working/implemented?

[0]:
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cinder/QuiescedSnapshotWithQemuGuestAgent#Cinder

Cheers,

-- 
Arthur Outhenin-Chalandre