No, I'm looking to prevent images that are in use from being deleted. "In use" and "protected" are disjoint sets.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Fei Long Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Are you looking for the 'protected' attribute? You can mark an image with > 'protected'=True, then the image can't be deleted by accidentally. > > On 17/12/14 10:23, Chris St. Pierre wrote: > > The goal here is protection against deletion of in-use images, not a > workaround that can be executed by an admin. For instance, someone without > admin still can't do that, and someone with a fat finger can still delete > images in use. > > "Don't lose your data" is a fine workaround for taking backups, but most > of us take backups anyway. Same deal. > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Jay Pipes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just set the images to is_public=False as an admin and they'll disappear >> from everyone except the admin. >> >> -jay >> >> >> On 12/16/2014 03:09 PM, Chris St. Pierre wrote: >> >>> Currently, with delay_delete enabled, the Glance scrubber happily >>> deletes whatever images you ask it to. That includes images that are >>> currently in use by Nova guests, which can really hose things. It'd be >>> nice to have an option to tell the scrubber to skip deletion of images >>> that are currently in use, which is fairly trivial to check for and >>> provides a nice measure of protection. >>> >>> Without delay_delete enabled, checking for images in use likely takes >>> too much time, so this would be limited to just images that are scrubbed >>> with delay_delete. >>> >>> I wanted to bring this up here before I go to the trouble of writing a >>> spec for it, particularly since it doesn't appear that glance currently >>> talks to Nova as a client at all. Is this something that folks would be >>> interested in having? Thanks! >>> >>> -- >>> Chris St. Pierre >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenStack-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> > > > > -- > Chris St. Pierre > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing > [email protected]http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > -- > Cheers & Best regards, > Fei Long Wang (王飞龙) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Senior Cloud Software Engineer > Tel: +64-48032246 > Email: [email protected] > Catalyst IT Limited > Level 6, Catalyst House, 150 Willis Street, Wellington > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > -- Chris St. Pierre
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