Bug 1751918
| Summary: | Openstack qcow2 images create poor filesystem layouts when installed | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat OpenStack | Reporter: | Donald Douwsma <ddouwsma> |
| Component: | openstack-ironic-python-agent | Assignee: | RHOS Maint <rhos-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | mlammon |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 13.0 (Queens) | CC: | bfournie, dtantsur, jkreger, mburns, slinaber |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
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| Last Closed: | 2019-10-18 15:22:02 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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Description
Donald Douwsma
2019-09-13 05:49:00 UTC
Could you try increasing the disk size in the nova flavors? This is what we use for the root partition size in ironic. If it helps, we can document it. Wouldn't that just change the size of the partition that the root image is grown into? In my example I'm simulating a large partition, its not that the filesystem cannot grow into it, but that the filesystem metadata is restricted by the decisions mkfs.xfs made when creating the original root filesystem in the qcow2 image during the build process. Are root partitions > 1TB outside of the design criteria for these images? Oh, I see. Yes, it may be a downside of the image-based approach, and your best bet right now may be creating your own images. We'll discuss what else can be done. If we could configure partitioning, then you could avoid having such a huge root partition (and allocate /opt, /home, /src or whatever you need instead). Recommendation for this use-case is to use whole-disk images. There is no plan to change the partition image formatting. |