Ceph filling up with images tagged to_be_deleted_by_glance

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • A lot of space is used by images that ends by the suffix "_to_be_deleted_by_glance" such as:
[root@controller0 ~]# rbd ls vms | grep -i deleted_by_glance
02e54719-219b-438e-aa57-d6e26f5cbf50_disk_to_be_deleted_by_glance
04d5540f-8499-4234-b039-10b5aa98a113_disk_to_be_deleted_by_glance
0b51ba6a-501f-4e03-9987-115fa1dd5c2a_disk_to_be_deleted_by_glance
0cb3427a-66fc-4020-9a78-24ab3f61ec2c_disk_to_be_deleted_by_glance
0d8f72eb-a9c8-4ab8-9316-12831f9126c3_disk_to_be_deleted_by_glance
[...]
e951b36a-aa9c-490f-9557-784f1cd3fdcb_disk_to_be_deleted_by_glance
f0e5b4ec-e663-4971-9236-ff0a750f1703_disk_to_be_deleted_by_glance
f8104260-564f-4bea-b8b3-9b1f9b7687aa_disk_to_be_deleted_by_glance
f8380b94-abd9-413d-8bf7-c4240168ce3c_disk_to_be_deleted_by_glance
fa53abc1-ae2c-4bd2-9fd8-f1b94da4a487_disk_to_be_deleted_by_glance
[...]
  • Are those files required by the VMs and if not, can we safely delete them ?

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (RHOSP)

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