The rbd-ephemeral-clone-stable-icehouse branch has everything I've got
so far for Icehouse. There were minor changes to these commits on the
Juno version of the branch (rbd-ephemeral-clone) in response to code
review comments, once code review is done and commits are merged I
plan to re-backport them to icehouse.

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:33 AM, Jens-Christian Fischer
<jens-christian.fisc...@switch.ch> wrote:
> We are currently starting to set up a new Icehouse/Ceph based cluster and
> will help to get this patch in shape as well.
>
> I am currently collecting the information needed that allow us to patch Nova
> and I have this:
> https://github.com/angdraug/nova/tree/rbd-ephemeral-clone-stable-icehouse on
> my list of patches to apply. Is there new code for the
> rbd-clone-image-handler blueprint, or should I use the one mentioned above?
>
> Also, are there other patches that would need to be applied for the full
> Icehouse/Ceph integration?
>
> cheers
> jc
>
> On 01.05.2014, at 01:23, Dmitry Borodaenko <dborodae...@mirantis.com> wrote:
>
> I've re-proposed the rbd-clone-image-handler blueprint via nova-specs:
> https://review.openstack.org/91486
>
> In other news, Sebastien has helped me test the most recent
> incarnation of this patch series and it seems to be usable now. With
> an important exception of live migrations of VMs with RBD backed
> ephemeral drives, which will need a bit more work and a separate
> blueprint.
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Dmitry Borodaenko
> <dborodae...@mirantis.com> wrote:
>
> I have decoupled the Nova rbd-ephemeral-clone branch from the
> multiple-image-location patch, the result can be found at the same
> location on GitHub as before:
> https://github.com/angdraug/nova/tree/rbd-ephemeral-clone
>
> I will keep rebasing this over Nova master, I also plan to update the
> rbd-clone-image-handler blueprint and publish it to nova-specs so that
> the patch series could be proposed for Juno.
>
> Icehouse backport of this branch is here:
> https://github.com/angdraug/nova/tree/rbd-ephemeral-clone-stable-icehouse
>
> I am not going to track every stable/icehouse commit with this branch,
> instead, I will rebase it over stable release tags as they appear.
> Right now it's based on tag:2014.1.
>
> For posterity, I'm leaving the multiple-image-location patch rebased
> over current Nova master here:
> https://github.com/angdraug/nova/tree/multiple-image-location
>
> I don't plan on maintaining multiple-image-location, just leaving it
> out there to save some rebasing effort for whoever decides to pick it
> up.
>
> -DmitryB
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Josh Durgin <josh.dur...@inktank.com>
> wrote:
>
> On 03/20/2014 07:03 PM, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Josh Durgin <josh.dur...@inktank.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> On 03/20/2014 02:07 PM, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote:
>
>
> The patch series that implemented clone operation for RBD backed
> ephemeral volumes in Nova did not make it into Icehouse. We have tried
> our best to help it land, but it was ultimately rejected. Furthermore,
> an additional requirement was imposed to make this patch series
> dependent on full support of Glance API v2 across Nova (due to its
> dependency on direct_url that was introduced in v2).
>
> You can find the most recent discussion of this patch series in the
> FFE (feature freeze exception) thread on openstack-dev ML:
>
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-March/029127.html
>
> As I explained in that thread, I believe this feature is essential for
> using Ceph as a storage backend for Nova, so I'm going to try and keep
> it alive outside of OpenStack mainline until it is allowed to land.
>
> I have created rbd-ephemeral-clone branch in my nova repo fork on
> GitHub:
> https://github.com/angdraug/nova/tree/rbd-ephemeral-clone
>
> I will keep it rebased over nova master, and will create an
> rbd-ephemeral-clone-stable-icehouse to track the same patch series
> over nova stable/icehouse once it's branched. I also plan to make sure
> that this patch series is included in Mirantis OpenStack 5.0 which
> will be based on Icehouse.
>
> If you're interested in this feature, please review and test. Bug
> reports and patches are welcome, as long as their scope is limited to
> this patch series and is not applicable for mainline OpenStack.
>
>
>
> Thanks for taking this on Dmitry! Having rebased those patches many
> times during icehouse, I can tell you it's often not trivial.
>
>
>
> Indeed, I get conflicts every day lately, even in the current
> bugfixing stage of the OpenStack release cycle. I have a feeling it
> will not get easier when Icehouse is out and Juno is in full swing.
>
> Do you think the imagehandler-based approach is best for Juno? I'm
> leaning towards the older way [1] for simplicity of review, and to
> avoid using glance's v2 api by default.
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/46879/
>
>
>
> Excellent question, I have thought long and hard about this. In
> retrospect, requiring this change to depend on the imagehandler patch
> back in December 2013 proven to have been a poor decision.
> Unfortunately, now that it's done, porting your original patch from
> Havana to Icehouse is more work than keeping the new patch series up
> to date with Icehouse, at least short term. Especially if we decide to
> keep the rbd_utils refactoring, which I've grown to like.
>
> As far as I understand, your original code made use of the same v2 api
> call even before it was rebased over imagehandler patch:
>
> https://github.com/jdurgin/nova/blob/8e4594123b65ddf47e682876373bca6171f4a6f5/nova/image/glance.py#L304
>
> If I read this right, imagehandler doesn't create the dependency on v2
> api, the only reason it caused a problem was because it exposed the
> output of the same Glance API call to a code path that assumed a v1
> data structure. If so, decoupling rbd clone patch from imagehandler
> will not help lift the full Glance API v2 support requirement, that v2
> api call will still be there.
>
> Also, there's always a chance that imagehandler lands in Juno. If it
> does, we'd be forced to dust off the imagehandler based patch series
> again, and the effort spent on maintaining the old patch would be
> wasted.
>
> Given all that, and without making any assumptions about stability of
> the imagehandler patch in its current state, I'm leaning towards
> keeping it. If you think it's likely that it will cause us more
> problems than the Glance API v2 issue, or if you disagree with my
> analysis of that issue, please tell.
>
>
>
> My impression was that full glance v2 support was more of an issue
> with the imagehandler approach because it's used by default there,
> while the earlier approach only uses glance v2 when rbd is enabled.
>
>
> I doubt that full support for
> v2 will land very fast in nova, although I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
>
>
>
> I'm sceptical about this, too. That's why right now my first priority
> is making sure this patch is usable and stable with Icehouse.
> Post-Icehouse, we'll have to see where glance v2 support in nova goes,
> if anywhere at all. Not much point making plans when we can't even
> tell if we'll have to rewrite this patch yet again for Juno.
>
>
>
> Sounds good. We can discuss more with nova folks once Juno opens,
> since we'll need to go through the new blueprint approval process
> anyway.
>
> Josh
>
>
>
>
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> Dmitry Borodaenko
>
>
>
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