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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Brian Waldon
<brian.waldon at rackspace.com> wrote:
> After implementing a working version of file injection on Libvirt, a good
> question was brought up on the merge prop: how should we handle a file
> injection failure? Injection could fail for several reasons: missing
> necessary libraries, unsupported image formats and bad permissions are just
> a few. There seem to be two clear paths forward:
>
> 1) Log an error, set the instance to ERROR, add an asynchronous fault to the
> instance in the db

This is what I'd prefer.

> 2) Log a warning, move on with the boot process

But... I do understand Dan's point about prior art here, and not
changing the existing behaviour (or at least, the similar scenario of
changing admin passwords...)

> It's not obvious which of these is the best route to take from a user's
> point of view. I'm currently leaning towards option 1 as I wouldn't want to
> have an instance come up (and be billed for it) while it wasn't what I
> explicitly requested.

Right. This is exactly my point of view.

> I would love to get some help with this problem. You can either reply
> directly to this email, or head over to the merge
> prop: https://review.openstack.org/#change,3526
>
>
> Brian Waldon
>
>
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