CreateSnapshot being called several times when only one Snapshot is wanted.

[Jiawei0227]

I am testing the csi-snapshotter metrics. And I had this little experiment in my env. Basically I just created one VolumeSnapshot. And the snapshot was created successfully.
When I check my snapshotter metrics, it seems that it has recorded a lot of CreateVolume event. And I checked my driver log, it also has a lot of CreateVolume call like 20ish times.

I checked with @msau42 and she mentioned this has been discussed here:
#165 (comment)

So this is just a follow-up to discuss what should we do about it.

[Jiawei0227]

/assign @xing-yang

[xing-yang]

Which version of external-snapshotter are you using?

[Jiawei0227]

I am using v3.0.1, does this get fixed in v4?

[msau42]

My understanding is that this is inherent due to 'CreateSnapshot' being overloaded as a 'GetSnapshot' use case, so it won't be fixed until we add a GetSnapshot call in CSI

[xing-yang]

ListSnapshots with snapshot_id serves the same purpose as GetSnapshot so we don't really need a new GetSnapshot RPC. The reason that we decided not to use ListSnapshots is that it is optional. CreateSnapshot is idempotent so it gives us the same output as GetSnapshot when calling it repeatedly. I remember we did discuss about this during the review and decided to go with this approach.

CC @yuxiangqian

[daresheep]

Dears,

Is there any updates?

i had testing on V4, and this issue already exist.

i had a big PVC about 30G, and i create snapshot for this pvc. it create a lot of snap files.

There is some information about this issue.

thank you.

[xing-yang]

@daresheep Which CSI driver are you using? CreateSnapshot must be idempotent. This means if CreateSnapshot is called multiple times for the same create snapshot request, the storage system should only create 1 snapshot, not multiple snapshots. This looks like a problem with the CSI driver and the storage system.

[daresheep]

thank you so much for your replay.

The csi driver is https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-driver-host-path and the version is V1.5.0 relase 4 days ago.

I'll try lower version for this later.

Thanks again.

[xing-yang]

@daresheep can you open an issue for the csi hostpath driver here? https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-driver-host-path/issues

[daresheep]

Ok, The issue created here:

kubernetes-csi/csi-driver-host-path#243

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