On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 4:47 AM, Sean Dague <s...@dague.net> wrote: > I've spent a couple of days getting to the bottom of: > > Bug 1302774 - Failed to detach volume because of volume not found error > prevents vm teardown > > This is an ec2 specific failure path, which mostly looks like a > combination of a not very good test case and the EC2 code in nova > collapsing the volume states in a way that seems completely incorrect > based on what I can read on what's expected from this call. > > However, these are symptoms of a bigger issue. The EC2 paths in Nova are > old, fragile, and error prone. The test coverage for these paths is > minimal, and largely hasn't evolved in the last year. The last > substantial addition to the EC2 tests in Tempest was by Burt Holtzman in > July 2013, Burt has also been contributing to the Nova side, but beyond > Burt, there basically aren't contributors right now. > > I really don't like shipping code in Nova that we know isn't good. With > very few contributions in this code though, it's defacto, if not > officially, deprecated. > > I'd like to see if there are any more people interested in keeping these > interfaces functional (by contributing both on the nova and tempest > sides). If so, great! > > If we get to the end of Juno in the current state, I think we need to > consider actually deprecating the EC2 support in Nova. Because I'm > pretty sure what we have today actually only works if you are using boto > on the client side, and doesn't really look like EC2 at any real level > of inspection. >
I Agree with this general sentiment. I would like to see EC2 support stay, but if no one is maintaining it and we know its broken we should deprecate it. > > -Sean > > -- > Sean Dague > http://dague.net > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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