Re: RBD boot from volume weirdness in OpenStack

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Awesome, thanks Josh.  I mispoke -- my client was 0.48.1.  glad
upgrading to 0.48.2 will do the trick!  thanks again.

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2012-10-25 08:22, Travis Rhoden wrote:
>>
>> I've been trying to take advantage of the code additions made by Josh
>> Durgin to OpenStack Folsom for combining  boot-from-volume and Ceph
>> RBD.  First off, nice work Josh!  I'm hoping you folks can help me out
>> with something strange I am seeing.  The question may be more
>> OpenStack related than Ceph, though, but hear me out first.
>>
>> I created a new volume (to use for boot-from-volume) from an existing
>> image like so:
>>
>> #cinder create --display-name uec-test-vol --image-id
>> 699137a2-a864-4a87-98fa-1684d7677044 5
>>
>> This completes just fine.
>>
>> Later I try to boot from it, that fails.  Cutting to the chase, here is
>> why:
>>
>> kvm: -drive
>>
>>
>> file=rbd:nova-volume/volume-9f4e4b70-7fbb-4d81-b912-b1c6fcf86c8b,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,cache=none:
>> error reading header from volume-9f4e4b70-7fbb-4d81-b912-b1c6fcf86c8b
>> kvm: -drive
>>
>>
>> file=rbd:nova-volume/volume-9f4e4b70-7fbb-4d81-b912-b1c6fcf86c8b,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,cache=none:
>> could not open disk image
>> rbd:nova-volume/volume-9f4e4b70-7fbb-4d81-b912-b1c6fcf86c8b: No such
>> file or directory
>>
>> It's weird that creating the volume was successful, but that KVM can't
>> read it.  Poking around a bit more, it was clear why:
>>
>> # rbd -n client.novavolume --pool nova-volume ls
>> <returns nothing>
>>
>> # rbd -n client.novavolume ls
>> volume-9f4e4b70-7fbb-4d81-b912-b1c6fcf86c8b
>>
>> Okay, the volume is the "rbd" pool!  That's really weird, though.
>> Here is the my nova.conf entries:
>> volume_driver=nova.volume.driver.RBDDriver
>> rbd_pool=nova-volume
>> rbd_user=novavolume
>>
>>
>> AND, here are the log entries from nova-volume.log (cleaned up a little):
>>
>> rbd create --pool nova-volume --size 5120
>> volume-9f4e4b70-7fbb-4d81-b912-b1c6fcf86c8b
>> rbd rm --pool nova-volume volume-9f4e4b70-7fbb-4d81-b912-b1c6fcf86c8b
>> rbd import --pool nova-volume /tmp/tmplQUwzt
>> volume-9f4e4b70-7fbb-4d81-b912-b1c6fcf86c8b
>>
>> I'm not sure why it goes create/delete/import, but regardless all of
>> that worked.  More importantly, all these commands used --pool
>> nova-volume.  So how the heck did that RBD end up in the "rbd" pool
>> instead of the "nova-volume" pool?  Any ideas?
>>
>> Before I hit "send", I figured I should at least test this myself.  Watch
>> this:
>>
>> #rbd create -n client.novavolume --pool nova-volume --size 1024 test
>> # rbd ls -n client.novavolume --pool nova-volume
>> test
>> # rbd export -n client.novavolume --pool nova-volume test /tmp/test
>> Exporting image: 100% complete...done.
>> # rbd rm -n client.novavolume --pool nova-volume test
>> Removing image: 100% complete...done.
>> # rbd import -n client.novavolume --pool nova-volume /tmp/test test
>> Importing image: 100% complete...done.
>> # rbd ls -n client.novavolume --pool nova-volume
>>
>> # rbd ls -n client.novavolume --pool rbd
>> test
>>
>>
>> So it seems that "rbd import" doesn't honor the --pool argument?
>
>
> This was true in 0.48, but it should have been fixed in 0.48.2 (and 0.52).
> I'll add a note about this to the docs.
>
>
>> I am using 0.53 on the backend, but my client is 0.48.2.  I'll upgrade
>> that and see if that makes a different.
>
>
> The ceph-common package in particular should be 0.48.2 or >=0.52.
>
>>  - Travis
>
>
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