Cloned from launchpad blueprint https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/ability-to-create-a-volume-already-present-in-the-storage-backend.

Description:

It would be nice to have the possibility to 'add' a volume instead of creating it, the latest implies a block creation. The purpose of this new command and API implementation is close the glance image-create. With glance, it will go like this:

$ glance image-create --size 2147483648 --name foo --store rbd --disk-format raw --container-format ovf --location rbd://ubuntu-raw

Basically:

As an administrator, I would like to be able to import existing volumes from a storage backend without having to extract them and then re-import them.

From a DB perspective, the operation is just a registration of a new volume nothing less nothing more.

Specification URL (additional information):

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