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Bug 1151114

Summary:	Ephemeral disk format option ignored
Product:	Red Hat OpenStack	Reporter:	Marko Myllynen <myllynen>
Component:	openstack-nova	Assignee:	Sahid Ferdjaoui <sferdjao>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	nlevinki <nlevinki>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.0 (RHEL 7)	CC:	berrange, dasmith, ndipanov, pbrady, sbauza, scohen, sferdjao, sgordon, slong, vromanso, yeylon
Target Milestone:	z4	Keywords:	ZStream
Target Release:	5.0 (RHEL 7)	Flags:	pbrady: internal-review+
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:	openstack-nova-2014.1.3-15	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	The ephemeral disk format (for example, 'ext4' or 'xfs') was previously not taken into account if using the nova boot command ([--ephemeral size=<size>[,format=<format>]]). Instead, the default format was used. With this update, Compute's libvirt driver now uses the specified format.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-04-16 14:34:42 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Marko Myllynen 2014-10-09 15:31:26 UTC

Description of problem:
When requesting an ephemeral disk with ...format=ext4... or ...format=xfs... the parameter is ignored, blkid / dumpe2fs both confirm that the provided disk is actually ext3.

See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/tripleo/+bug/1266262.

Comment 2 Dan Smith 2014-10-23 15:12:01 UTC

Sahid, Nikola says you might know something about this?

Comment 3 Pádraig Brady 2014-10-23 23:56:29 UTC

Note also the Juno fix https://review.openstack.org/#/c/100473/

Comment 4 Sahid Ferdjaoui 2014-10-29 15:03:23 UTC

I'm going to backport the fix proposed upstream.

Comment 8 nlevinki 2015-04-13 07:02:43 UTC

This ticket was verified, you need to change the configuration before writing which format you want the disk to be.
The default is ext3 and if you don't change the configuration it will create an ext3 disk regardless of what you want.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2015-04-16 14:34:42 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html