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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# -------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+# Copyright 2002-2015, OpenNebula Project (OpenNebula.org), C12G Labs        #
+#                                                                            #
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may    #
+# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain    #
+# a copy of the License at                                                   #
+#                                                                            #
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0                                 #
+#                                                                            #
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software        #
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,          #
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.   #
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and        #
+# limitations under the License.                                             #
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+
+###############################################################################
+# This script is used to flatten a snapshot of a persistent image
+###############################################################################
+
+# -------- Set up the environment to source common tools & conf ------------
+
+if [ -z "${ONE_LOCATION}" ]; then
+    LIB_LOCATION=/usr/lib/one
+else
+    LIB_LOCATION=$ONE_LOCATION/lib
+fi
+
+. $LIB_LOCATION/sh/scripts_common.sh
+
+DRIVER_PATH=$(dirname $0)
+source ${DRIVER_PATH}/../libfs.sh
+source ${DRIVER_PATH}/ceph.conf
+
+# -------- Get image and datastore arguments from OpenNebula core ------------
+
+DRV_ACTION=$1
+ID=$2
+
+XPATH="${DRIVER_PATH}/../xpath.rb -b $DRV_ACTION"
+
+unset i XPATH_ELEMENTS
+
+while IFS= read -r -d '' element; do
+    XPATH_ELEMENTS[i++]="$element"
+done < <($XPATH     /DS_DRIVER_ACTION_DATA/DATASTORE/TEMPLATE/BRIDGE_LIST \
+                    /DS_DRIVER_ACTION_DATA/DATASTORE/TEMPLATE/POOL_NAME \
+                    /DS_DRIVER_ACTION_DATA/IMAGE/SOURCE \
+                    /DS_DRIVER_ACTION_DATA/IMAGE/TARGET_SNAPSHOT \
+                    /DS_DRIVER_ACTION_DATA/DATASTORE/TEMPLATE/CEPH_USER)
+
+unset i
+
+BRIDGE_LIST="${XPATH_ELEMENTS[i++]}"
+POOL_NAME="${XPATH_ELEMENTS[i++]:-$POOL_NAME}"
+RBD_SRC="${XPATH_ELEMENTS[i++]}"
+SNAP_ID="${XPATH_ELEMENTS[i++]}"
+CEPH_USER="${XPATH_ELEMENTS[i++]}"
+
+DST_HOST=`get_destination_host $ID`
+
+if [ -z "$DST_HOST" ]; then
+    error_message "Datastore template missing 'BRIDGE_LIST' attribute."
+    exit -1
+fi
+
+if [ -n "$CEPH_USER" ]; then
+    RBD="$RBD --id ${CEPH_USER}"
+fi
+
+SNAP_FLATTEN_CMD=$(cat <<EOF
+    rm_children(){
+        local rbd_snap rbd snap_id child snap_list
+
+        rbd_snap=\$1
+        rbd=\${rbd_snap%%@*}
+
+        snap_list=\$(set +e; rbd snap ls \$rbd)
+
+        if [ -n "\$snap_list" ]; then
+            CHILDREN=\$(set +e; rbd children \$rbd_snap 2>/dev/null)
+
+            for child in \$CHILDREN; do
+                snap_id=\${child##*-}
+                child=\$child@\$snap_id
+                rm_children \$child
+            done
+
+            $RBD snap unprotect \$rbd_snap
+            $RBD snap rm \$rbd_snap
+        fi
+
+        $RBD rm \$rbd
+    }
+
+    RBD_FORMAT=\$($RBD info $RBD_SRC | sed -n 's/.*format: // p')
+
+    if [ "\${RBD_FORMAT}" != "2" ]; then
+        echo "Only RBD Format 2 is supported for this operation" >&2
+        exit 1
+    fi
+
+    $RBD clone $RBD_SRC-$SNAP_ID@$SNAP_ID $RBD_SRC.flatten
+    $RBD flatten $RBD_SRC.flatten
+
+    rm_children $RBD_SRC-0@0
+
+    $RBD rename $RBD_SRC.flatten $RBD_SRC
+EOF
+)
+
+ssh_exec_and_log "$DST_HOST" "$SNAP_FLATTEN_CMD" \
+              "Error flattening snapshot $RBD_SRC-$SNAP_ID@$SNAP_ID"