[Openstack-operators] Nova outside /var/lib ?

Edier Zapata edalzap at gmail.com
Fri Sep 16 22:25:45 UTC 2011


Thank you Sharif
 I'll try it :)

Bye

On 9/16/11, Sharif Islam <islamsh at indiana.edu> wrote:
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> On 09/16/2011 10:39 AM, Edier Zapata wrote:
>> Good morning,
>>  Is there a way to make Nova to store instances not in /var/lib but in
>> another folder of the filesystem?
>
> Yes. First I changed all directives in the conf file:
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> - --instances_path=/local/nova/instances
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>
> moved /var/lib/nova to /local/nova
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> restarted all the services.
>
> If you have glance, you also need to do the same.
>
>
>>  This is because my /var was defined only to store logs, so it's not
>> big enough and actually is near full in all the nodes; maybe I can
>> redirect Nova to store the instances for example in
>> /home/nova/instances? If nova don't have a configuration directive to
>> make this, a Symbolic link works?
>
>
> sym link might work but I haven't tried it.
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>
> - --sharif
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Edier Alberto Zapata Hernández
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Universidad de Valle



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