Hi all, As you may know, there is ongoing work on a spec for Nova to define an "attach/detach" API for tighter integration with Manila.
The concept here is that this mechanism will be needed to implement hypervisor mediated FS access using vsock, but that the mechanism should also be applicable more generally to an "attach" concept for filesystems accessed over IP networks (like existing NFS filers). In the hypervisor-mediated case, attach would involve the hypervisor host connecting as a filesystem client and then re-exporting to the guest via a local address. We think this would apply to driver_handles_share_servers type drivers that support share networks, by mapping the attach/detach share API to attaching/detaching the share network from the guest VM. Does that make sense to people maintaining this type of driver? For example, for the netapp and generic drivers, is it reasonable to expose nova attach/detach APIs that attach and detach the associated share network? I've CC'd Luis who is working on the Nova spec. Regards, John __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev