[efs-provisioner] Fails to delete "saved" volume

[Nuru]

Using efs-provisioner v2.4.0 on Kubernetes 1.15.10, I noticed it fails to delete the storage for a PersistentVolume if the PersistentVolume was previously "saved" after being deleted externally.

Using efs StorageClass with

reclaimPolicy: Delete
volumeBindingMode: Immediate

When a PersistentVolumeClaim (pvc) is created using the efs storage class, efs-provisioner creates a PersistentVolume (pv) and stores the data on the EFS file system in a directory named /efs-provisioner/{pvc-name}-{pv-name}. When the PersistentVolumeClaim is deleted and the reclaimPolicy is "Delete", efs-provisioner deletes its PersistentVolume and removes the /efs-provisioner/{pvc-name}-{pv-name} directory and all the data in it from the EFS file system.

If the PersistentVolume Kubernetes resource is deleted, for example via kubectl delete, efs-provisioner will attempt to "save" it and the logs will show something like:

Trying to save persistentvolume "pvc-bbe5e4fa-d9e3-4a43-aed7-d9f3a4f31cfe"
persistentvolume "pvc-bbe5e4fa-d9e3-4a43-aed7-d9f3a4f31cfe" saved

The bug is that after saving a PersistentVolume this way, if you then immediately (and maybe later) delete the PersistentVolumeClaim, efs-provisioner deletes the PersistentVolume Kubernetes resource, but it does not remove the data from EFS. It is abandoned there and difficult to notice or clean up using standard Kubernetes tools. Since EFS storage is relatively expensive, this can be a significant problem.

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[Nuru]

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Can someone please look into this?

[nikhita]

Thanks for reporting the issue!

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