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Cinder Backend Activity Attributes

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Cinder Backend Activity Attributes

A Cinder Backend Activity is some process, thread, job or state machine which is launched by a Cinder Volume Driver on another machine that is not directly under Compute's control. For Cinder this would typically be an iSCSI target or an NFS server.

Volume Drivers have a great deal of flexibility on how to perform specific functions, which typically involves replicating the content of a volume or snapshot to somewhere. The different possible activities, and how their implementations can very is discussed in Cinder_Backend_Activities.