Public bug reported: According to this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1256306
for one image in _base dir 03d8e206-6500-4d91-b47d-ee74897f9b4e 2 locks were created -rw-r--r-- 1 nova nova 0 Oct 4 20:40 nova-03d8e206-6500-4d91-b47d- ee74897f9b4e -rw-r--r-- 1 nova nova 0 Oct 4 20:40 nova- _var_lib_nova_instances__base_03d8e206-6500-4d91-b47d-ee74897f9b4e generally locks are used to protect concurrent data access, so the lock can't work as they expected (mutual access) in current code fetch_image from glance use lock nova-xxxxx while copy image from _base to target directory use nova_var_lib_xxx should they use same lock? ** Affects: nova Importance: Undecided Status: New -- 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/1265452 Title: cache lock for image not consistent Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova): New Bug description: According to this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1256306 for one image in _base dir 03d8e206-6500-4d91-b47d-ee74897f9b4e 2 locks were created -rw-r--r-- 1 nova nova 0 Oct 4 20:40 nova-03d8e206-6500-4d91-b47d- ee74897f9b4e -rw-r--r-- 1 nova nova 0 Oct 4 20:40 nova- _var_lib_nova_instances__base_03d8e206-6500-4d91-b47d-ee74897f9b4e generally locks are used to protect concurrent data access, so the lock can't work as they expected (mutual access) in current code fetch_image from glance use lock nova-xxxxx while copy image from _base to target directory use nova_var_lib_xxx should they use same lock? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1265452/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp