Cinder

Enhanced force deletion

Registered by Lisa Li

    In case of a failure in communication between Nova and cinder, an instance can be deleted, but the attached volume is not properly marked as detached and cannot be deleted. This fix added a check to "force-delete" to check in nova or any existing attachments and if none exist, delete the volume.

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Status:
Complete
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None
Priority:
Undefined
Drafter:
Lisa Li
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
Lisa Li
Definition:
Obsolete
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Unknown
Milestone target:
None
Completed by
Lisa Li

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Cinder already has a force delete volume action, so how is that insufficient today? Does it still not force the volume delete if it shows as in-use? Note that this might have been a side effect of some old bugs in nova, which should be resolved now, see https://review.openstack.org/#/c/528385/ as an example. Of course, if for some reason we have a REST API or RPC failure during the cleanup then yes you could have orphaned volumes with bad state. -- mriedem 20180828

The problem still exists in current Cinder branch:https://bugs.launchpad.net/cinder/+bug/1791213

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/enhanced-force-deletion,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/600638
    Force delete invalid attached volume

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bug/1791213,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/598067
    Enhanced force deletion

We can delete attachments at first, and then delete volumes. So set it invalid.

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