Comment 2 for bug 739601

I like the manage command + cron job. Perhaps enabling tombstoning with a flag, because it is pretty useless in dev mode.

On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:18 PM, justinsb wrote:

> Agree this is important.
>
> Do you think there should be a administrative command that e.g. gets run
> in cron job or do you think we should schedule it ourselves somehow? I
> like the former, because it feels simpler and easier for everyone, but
> it's really just pushing more work onto the packagers / deployers.
>
> Anyone from Rackspace want to weigh in with a recommended policy? Do we
> just leave the disk image lying around for - say - 24 hours? Do we
> archive it off to Swift? What happens if people launch and shut down a
> lot of machines quickly - could that DoS the cloud?
>
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> Title:
> Instance files should be tombstoned and cleaned up later instead of
> immediately deleted
>
> Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
> New
>
> Bug description:
> This is a huge deployment concern. Recovering from accidental
> deletions by users is impossible if we immediately delete the instance
> files.
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