Nice idea. Actually, fast image cloning has been widely supported by most NAS devices, and VMware VAAI also started to require this criteria many years ago.
However, I am not quite sure what exactly need to put into the base NFS driver, anyways, the fast cloning api will vary for specific vendors. -Hao From: Nilesh P Bhosale [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 1:51 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: [openstack-dev] Efficient image cloning implementation in NetApp nfs drivers // make this part of base NFS driver Hi All, I was going through the following blue print, NetApp proposed and implemented in its driver (NetAppNFSDriver - cinder/volume/drivers/netapp/nfs.py ) a while back (change<https://review.openstack.org/#/c/41868/>): https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/netapp-cinder-nfs-image-cloning It looks quite an interesting and valuable feature for the end customers. Can we make it part of the base NfsDriver (cinder/volume/drivers/nfs.py)? so that the customers using the base NFS driver can benefit and also other drivers inheriting from this base NFS driver (e.g. IBMNAS_NFSDriver, NexentaNfsDriver) can also benefit. Please let me know your valuable opinion. I can start a blueprint for the Juno release. Thanks, Nilesh
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