Hi Dmitry, Will you please share with us how things went on the meeting? Many thanks, Benjamin > -----Original Message----- > From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-bounces at lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of > Dmitry Borodaenko > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 11:18 PM > To: ceph-users at lists.ceph.com > Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: [ceph-users] [Nova] [RBD] Copy-on-write cloning for RBD-backed > disks > > I've got a bit of good news and bad news about the state of landing the > rbd-ephemeral-clone patch series for Nova in Juno. > > The good news is that the first patch in the series > (https://review.openstack.org/91722 fixing a data loss inducing bug with > live migrations of instances with RBD backed ephemeral drives) was > merged yesterday. > > The bad news is that after 2 months of sitting in review queue and only > getting its first a +1 from a core reviewer on the spec approval freeze > day, the spec for the blueprint rbd-clone-image-handler > (https://review.openstack.org/91486) wasn't approved in time. Because of > that, today the blueprint was rejected along with the rest of the > commits in the series, even though the code itself was reviewed and > approved a number of times. > > Our last chance to avoid putting this work on hold for yet another > OpenStack release cycle is to petition for a spec freeze exception in > the next Nova team meeting: > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Nova > > If you're using Ceph RBD as backend for ephemeral disks in Nova and are > interested this patch series, please speak up. Since the biggest concern > raised about this spec so far has been lack of CI coverage, please let > us know if you're already using this patch series with Juno, Icehouse, > or Havana. > > I've put together an etherpad with a summary of where things are with > this patch series and how we got here: > https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/nova-ephemeral-rbd-clone-status > > Previous thread about this patch series on ceph-users ML: > http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/2014- > March/028097.html > > -- > Dmitry Borodaenko > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users at lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com