Bug 1425433

Summary:	Ability to Mount a Persistent Volume as a Raw Device
Product:	OpenShift Container Platform	Reporter:	raffaele spazzoli <rspazzol>
Component:	RFE	Assignee:	Bradley Childs <bchilds>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Chao Yang <chaoyang>
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Version:	3.4.0	CC:	aos-bugs, chaoyang, eparis, jokerman, mmccomas
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Description raffaele spazzoli 2017-02-21 12:27:43 UTC

This is a request for improvement.

Currently OpenShift will format a volume if it finds it's not formatted and always mount it as a branch of the file system.
There is some software that works better with raw devices, such as Oracle RAC for example.
This request is about allowing OpenShift to mount raw devices. Volumes that would support this should be:

- emptyDir
- persistentVolume whose backing storage is a block device, such as rbd

I opened a similar RFI in the upstream project:
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/41792

Comment 2 Kirsten Newcomer 2019-06-12 11:59:41 UTC

With the introduction of OpenShift 4, Red Hat has delivered or roadmapped a substantial number of features based on feedback by our customers.  Many of the enhancements encompass specific RFEs which have been requested, or deliver a comparable solution to a customer problem, rendering an RFE redundant.

This bz (RFE) has been identified as a feature request not yet planned or scheduled for an OpenShift release and is being closed. 

If this feature is still an active request that needs to be tracked, Red Hat Support can assist in filing a request in the new JIRA RFE system, as well as provide you with updates as the RFE progress within our planning processes. Please open a new support case: https://access.redhat.com/support/cases/#/case/new 

Opening a New Support Case: https://access.redhat.com/support/cases/#/case/new 

As the new Jira RFE system is not yet public, Red Hat Support can help answer your questions about your RFEs via the same support case system.