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Cannot delete a snapshot after using it to create a volume

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asked 2020-07-01 01:06:35 -0600

bathina2
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In my use case I have a volume (volA) and I take a snapshot of it. Then I create a new volume (volB) using volA's snapshot as the source. At this point I would like to delete volA and its snapshot, however I can't seem to delete the snapshot as it's being referred to by volB. As soon as I delete volB I can clean every thing up.

How can I delete the original snapshot (and then the original volume) without deleting the clone.

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answered 2020-07-01 06:31:04 -0600

eblock
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In an openstack environment with ceph backend you could let cinder flatten the volume automatically during creation, that way the volume becomes independent from the snapshot which can be deleted afterwards. The cinder config is this one, and you would need to set it to true:

# Flatten volumes created from snapshots to remove dependency from volume to
# snapshot (boolean value)
#rbd_flatten_volume_from_snapshot = false

I don't know how that works with other cinder backends, though.

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yes I think this is the answer. How do I configure cinder with this value if I am using magnum to deploy my cluster?

bathina2 ( 2020-07-01 13:29:10 -0600 )edit

I'm not familiar with magnum, how would you change other config settings for different services?

eblock ( 2020-07-02 02:30:06 -0600 )edit

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