Excerpts from David Shrewsbury's message of 2014-04-22 10:16:42 -0700: > Hi, > > I'm working on implementing rebuild() in the nova.virt.ironic driver so > that we can support the --preserve-ephemeral option. I have a design > question and would love some feedback on it. > > The way to trigger a deploy is to set the provision state to ACTIVE. > However, for a rebuild, we cannot currently use this, since the API will > return an error saying that the target state and the current provision > state are the same, and return an error. > > I can think of a couple of ways around this: > > (1) If target and current provision state are ACTIVE, go ahead and allow > the (re)deploy. > > (2) Add a new provision state that would set the instance to a sort of > temporary limbo state, expecting to be redeployed at some point by setting > target to ACTIVE (as normal).
I'm not familiar with Ironic's internals, but I think rebuild is a special state, since it involves a pretty violent change to the box (overwriting the disks) that is definitely not the same as being in an ACTIVE state where the user might expect it would be working. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
