Comment 2 for bug 1238593

Since NFS drivers are not a core feature in cinder, any API to manage them would need to be an extension to cinder, and therefore not allowed to modify the DB schema. The most logical way to implement such an API would be for it to store the list of shares in a config file... which is what we already do.

My alternate suggestion is to implement config file polling in the NFS drivers, such that modifications to the shares.conf file are picked up automatically (perhaps after a short delay).

If we do that, then the only enhancement left would be to allow modification of the config file through an API rather than directly, which seems like a lot of work for relatively little gain.