Creating a Shared File System

Function

This API is used to create a shared file system. After the file system is created, you need to mount the file system to ECSs to achieve shared file storage.

This API is an asynchronous API. If the returned status code is 200, the API request is successfully delivered and received. Later, you can query the status and path of the shared file system by referring to Querying Details About a Shared File System to identify whether the creation is complete and successful. If the status of the shared file system becomes available or the shared path is generated, the creation is successful.

After a shared file system is created successfully, it can be used only after you add share access rules by referring to Adding a File System Access Rule.

URI

• POST /v2/{project_id}/shares
• Parameter description

  Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
  project_id	Yes	String	Specifies the project ID of the operator.

Request Header

The operation message header is the same as that of a common request. For details, see Table 3.

Request

• Parameter description

  Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
  share	Yes	Object	For details, see the description of the share field.

• Description of the share field

  Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
  share_proto	Yes	String	Specifies the file sharing protocol. The value can be NFS (for Linux OS).
  size	Yes	Integer	Specifies the size (GB) of the shared file system. The applied capacity of the shared file system cannot be larger than the allowed quota. To view the allowed quota, see Quota Management.
  name	No	String	Specifies the name of the shared file system, which contains 0 to 255 characters and can contain only letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).
  description	No	String	Specifies the description of the shared file system, which contains 0 to 255 characters and can contain only letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).
  is_public	No	Boolean	(Supported by API versions from v2.8 to v2.42). Specifies whether a file system can be publicly seen. If it is set to true, the file system can be seen publicly. If it is set to false, the file system can be seen privately. The default value is false.
  availability_zone	No	String	Specifies the availability zone name. If this parameter is left blank, the default availability zone will be used. If the default availability zone contains no storage resources, the creation of the shared file system fails. The value contains 0 to 255 characters.
  metadata	No	Object	Specifies the metadata information used to create the shared file system. The value consists of one or more key and value pairs organized as a dictionary of strings. For details, see the description of the metadata field.

• Example request: POST https://{endpoint}/v2/16e1ab15c35a457e9c2b2aa189f544e1/shares
  Creating a 1-GB NFS file system that can only be seen privately

  {
     "share": {
         "name": "test",
         "description": "test description",
         "share_proto": "NFS",
         "share_network_id": null,
         "size": 1,
         "is_public": false
     }
  }

Response

• Parameter description

  Parameter	Type	Description
  share	Object	For details, see the description of the share field.

• Description of the share field

  Parameter	Type	Description
  links	Array	Specifies the links of shared file systems.
  availability_zone	String	Specifies the availability zone.
  share_server_id	String	Specifies the ID for managing share services.
  id	String	Specifies the ID of the shared file system.
  size	Integer	Specifies the size (GB) of the shared file system.
  project_id	String	Specifies the ID of the project to which the shared file system belongs.
  metadata	Object	Sets one or more metadata key and value pairs as a dictionary of strings. The value of the share_used key indicates the file system used capacity, in bytes.
  status	String	Specifies the status of the shared file system.
  description	String	Describes the shared file system.
  host	String	Specifies the name of the host.
  name	String	Specifies the name of the shared file system.
  created_at	String	Specifies the date and time stamp when the shared file system was created.
  share_proto	String	Specifies the protocol for sharing file systems.
  share_type_name	String	Specifies the storage service type assigned for the shared file system, such as high-performance storage (composed of SSDs) and large-capacity storage (composed of SATA disks). This field is supported by API v2.6 and later versions.
  share_type	String	Specifies the ID of the file system type.
  volume_type	String	Specifies the volume type. The definition of this parameter is the same as that of share_type.
  export_locations	Array	Lists the mount locations. Currently, only a single mount location is supported. This parameter exists only when X-Openstack-Manila-Api-Version specified in the request header is smaller than 2.9.
  export_location	String	Specifies the mount location. This parameter exists only when X-Openstack-Manila-Api-Version specified in the request header is smaller than 2.9.
  is_public	Boolean	Specifies the visibility level of the shared file system. If true is returned, the file system can be seen publicly. If false is returned, the file system can be seen privately. The default value is false.

• Example response

  {
      "share": {
          "status": "creating",
          "project_id": "16e1ab15c35a457e9c2b2aa189f544e1",
          "name": "share_London",
          "share_type": "25747776-08e5-494f-ab40-a64b9d20d8f7",
          "availability_zone": "az1.dc1",
          "created_at": "2015-09-18T10:25:24.533287",
          "export_location": null,
          "links": [
              {
                  "href": "http://192.168.198.54:8786/v2/16e1ab15c35a457e9c2b2aa189f544e1/shares/011d21e2-fbc3-4e4a-9993-9ea223f73264",
                  "rel": "self"
              },
              {
                  "href": "http://192.168.198.54:8786/16e1ab15c35a457e9c2b2aa189f544e1/shares/011d21e2-fbc3-4e4a-9993-9ea223f73264",
                  "rel": "bookmark"
              }
          ],
          "share_network_id": null,
          "export_locations": [],
          "share_proto": "NFS",
          "host": null,
          "volume_type": "default",
          "snapshot_id": null,
          "is_public": true,
          "metadata": {
              "project": "my_app",
              "aim": "doc"
          },
          "id": "011d21e2-fbc3-4e4a-9993-9ea223f73264",
          "size": 1,
          "description": "My custom share London"
      }
  }

  

  When the client receives the system response, the shared file system is still being created. For this reason, the shared path cannot be queried immediately. You can use the API of Querying Mount Locations of a Shared File System to query the shared path after the creation is complete.

Status Codes

• Normal

  200

• Abnormal

  Status Code	Description
  400 Bad Request	The server failed to process the request.
  401 Unauthorized	You must enter a username and the password to access the requested page.
  403 Forbidden	Access to the requested page is forbidden.
  404 Not Found	The requested page was not found.
  405 Method Not Allowed	You are not allowed to use the method specified in the request.
  406 Not Acceptable	The response generated by the server could not be accepted by the client.
  407 Proxy Authentication Required	You must use the proxy server for authentication. Then the request can be processed.
  408 Request Timeout	The request timed out.
  409 Conflict	The request could not be processed due to a conflict.
  413 Quota Exceeded	Insufficient user quota.
  500 Internal Server Error	Failed to complete the request because of an internal service error.
  501 Not Implemented	Failed to complete the request because the server does not support the requested function.
  502 Bad Gateway	Failed to complete the request because the request is invalid.
  503 Service Unavailable	Failed to complete the request because the service is unavailable.
  504 Gateway Timeout	A gateway timeout error occurred.