Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-12 Thread John Griffith
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Caitlin Bestler wrote: > On 11/12/2013 10:42 AM, John Griffith wrote: > >> >> Sorry, but I'm not seeing where you're going with this in relation to >> the question being asked? The question is how to deal with creating a >> new bootable volume from nova boot comma

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-12 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On 11/12/2013 10:42 AM, John Griffith wrote: Sorry, but I'm not seeing where you're going with this in relation to the question being asked? The question is how to deal with creating a new bootable volume from nova boot command and be able to tell whether it's timed out, or errored while waiti

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-12 Thread John Griffith
it. Now that people are back from Summit, what would you propose? >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Solly Ross >>> >>> - Original Message - >>> From: "Solly Ross" >>> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage qu

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-12 Thread Caitlin Bestler
ssage - From: "Solly Ross" To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2013 10:40:48 AM Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953 Also, that's still an overly comp

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-12 Thread John Griffith
> From: "Solly Ross" > To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" > > Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2013 10:40:48 AM > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt > https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953 > > Also, that&

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-12 Thread Solly Ross
e questions)" Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2013 10:40:48 AM Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953 Also, that's still an overly complicated process for one or two VMs. The idea behind the Nova command was to minimize the

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-05 Thread Avishay Traeger
Chris Friesen wrote on 11/05/2013 10:21:07 PM: > > I think the proper fix is to make sure that Cinder is moving the volume > > into 'error' state in all cases where there is an error. Nova can then > > poll as long as its in the 'downloading' state, until it's 'available' or > > 'error'. Is ther

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-05 Thread Solly Ross
: Tuesday, November 5, 2013 9:23:39 AM Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953 Wouldn't you still need variable timeouts? I'm assuming that copying multi-gig cinder volumes might take a while, even if it's local.

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-05 Thread Chris Friesen
Wouldn't you still need variable timeouts? I'm assuming that copying multi-gig cinder volumes might take a while, even if it's local. (Or are you assuming copy-on-write?) Chris On 11/05/2013 01:43 AM, Caitlin Bestler wrote: Replication of snapshots is one solution to this. You create a Cin

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-05 Thread John Griffith
Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" > , > Date: 11/05/2013 07:41 AM > Subject:Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt > https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953 > > > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:27 AM, John

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-05 Thread Chris Friesen
On 11/05/2013 01:27 AM, Avishay Traeger wrote: I think the proper fix is to make sure that Cinder is moving the volume into 'error' state in all cases where there is an error. Nova can then poll as long as its in the 'downloading' state, until it's 'available' or 'error'. Is there a reason why

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-04 Thread Caitlin Bestler
Replication of snapshots is one solution to this. You create a Cinder Volume once. snapshot it. Then replicate to the hosts that need it (this is the piece currently missing). Then you clone there. I will be giving an in an hour in conference session on this and other uses of snapshots in the las

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-04 Thread Avishay Traeger
reason why Cinder would legitimately get stuck in 'downloading'? Thanks, Avishay From: John Griffith To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" , Date: 11/05/2013 07:41 AM Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-04 Thread John Griffith
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:27 AM, John Griffith wrote: > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Chris Friesen > wrote: >> On 11/04/2013 03:49 PM, Solly Ross wrote: >>> >>> So, There's currently an outstanding issue with regards to a Nova >>> shortcut command that creates a volume from an image and then bo

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-04 Thread John Griffith
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Chris Friesen wrote: > On 11/04/2013 03:49 PM, Solly Ross wrote: >> >> So, There's currently an outstanding issue with regards to a Nova >> shortcut command that creates a volume from an image and then boots >> from it in one fell swoop. The gist of the issue is th

Re: [openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-04 Thread Chris Friesen
On 11/04/2013 03:49 PM, Solly Ross wrote: So, There's currently an outstanding issue with regards to a Nova shortcut command that creates a volume from an image and then boots from it in one fell swoop. The gist of the issue is that there is currently a set timeout which can time out before the

[openstack-dev] Improvement of Cinder API wrt https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213953

2013-11-04 Thread Solly Ross
So, There's currently an outstanding issue with regards to a Nova shortcut command that creates a volume from an image and then boots from it in one fell swoop. The gist of the issue is that there is currently a set timeout which can time out before the volume creation has finished (it's design