Public bug reported: The description of this option is confusing:
https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/configuration/config.html#DEFAULT.block_device_allocate_retries "Number of times to retry block device allocation on failures. Starting with Liberty, Cinder can use image volume cache. This may help with block device allocation performance. Look at the cinder image_volume_cache_enabled configuration option." The "on failures" part doesn't make sense. The option is used during boot from volume where nova-compute is waiting for volumes it created to be "available" before attaching them to the server. The mention of Liberty can also probably go away and just link to the cinder docs: https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/latest/admin/blockstorage-image- volume-cache.html It should also mention the related block_device_allocate_retries_interval option. Following up, a min=0 value could be added so the code doesn't need to handle values less than 0. ** Affects: nova Importance: Low Assignee: Matt Riedemann (mriedem) Status: In Progress ** Tags: config docs volumes -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1819049 Title: block_device_allocate_retries help needs work Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): In Progress Bug description: The description of this option is confusing: https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/configuration/config.html#DEFAULT.block_device_allocate_retries "Number of times to retry block device allocation on failures. Starting with Liberty, Cinder can use image volume cache. This may help with block device allocation performance. Look at the cinder image_volume_cache_enabled configuration option." The "on failures" part doesn't make sense. The option is used during boot from volume where nova-compute is waiting for volumes it created to be "available" before attaching them to the server. The mention of Liberty can also probably go away and just link to the cinder docs: https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/latest/admin/blockstorage-image- volume-cache.html It should also mention the related block_device_allocate_retries_interval option. Following up, a min=0 value could be added so the code doesn't need to handle values less than 0. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1819049/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
