[Openstack-operators] EXT4 as ephemeral disk

Davanum Srinivas davanum at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 15:05:38 UTC 2015


Nathanael, Abel,

"disable the automatic formatting" sounds like a good feature. Do you
mind helping us add it? (log a review? post a diff? create a
blueprint?).

thanks,
dims

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Nathanael Burton
<nathanael.i.burton at gmail.com> wrote:
> We just rely on the tenants to format the disks themselves. Whatever fs type
> we choose would inevitably be wrong for a large percentage of the users, so
> why bother.
>
> On Jan 13, 2015 7:37 PM, "Jay Pipes" <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 01/13/2015 07:14 PM, Nathanael Burton wrote:
>>>
>>> We actually modified the code to disable the automatic formatting of
>>> ephemeral disks.  This was especially problematic with flavors that had
>>> larger sized ephemeral disks as it would slow the nova boot time.
>>
>>
>> Hi Nate!
>>
>> So, do you have some sort of agent that formats the larger ephemeral disks
>> post-boot? Or do you just rely on the tenant formatting the raw disks
>> themselves?
>>
>> Best,
>> -jay
>>
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