<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, <div>I wrote a script a couple of times ago</div><div><a href="https://github.com/Razique/BashStuff/blob/master/SYSTEMS/OpenStack/SCR_5008_V00_NUAC-OPENSTACK-Nova-compute-images-prunning.sh">https://github.com/Razique/BashStuff/blob/master/SYSTEMS/OpenStack/SCR_5008_V00_NUAC-OPENSTACK-Nova-compute-images-prunning.sh</a></div><div>It looks for images that have a backing file, for the backing files that are not used, you can remove it :) </div><div>the script doesn't remove anyhthing, it just indicates you what base files can safely be removed - given as well the very fact that the base files are not the ones that are used, you can maybe put the dir - in a shared directory, instances may spawn slower, but after that you shouldn't have any problem</div><div><br></div><div>regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>Le 13 mars 2013 à 23:29, Michael Still <<a href="mailto:mikal@stillhq.com">mikal@stillhq.com</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Joe Topjian <<a href="mailto:joe.topjian@cybera.ca">joe.topjian@cybera.ca</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Michael Still <<a href="mailto:mikal@stillhq.com">mikal@stillhq.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Joe Topjian <<a href="mailto:joe.topjian@cybera.ca">joe.topjian@cybera.ca</a>><br>wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">It would, yes, but I think your caveat trumps that idea. Having x nodes<br>be<br>able to work with a shared _base directory is great for saving space and<br>centrally using images. As an example, one of my OpenStack's _base<br>directory<br>is 650gb in size. It's currently shared via NFS. If it was not shared or<br>used a _base_$host scheme, that would be 650gb per compute node. 10<br>nodes<br>and you're already at 6.5TB.<br></blockquote><br>Is that _base directory so large because its never been cleaned up<br>though? What sort of maintenance are you performing on it?<br></blockquote><br>It's true that I haven't done any maintenance to _base. From my estimations,<br>a cleanup wouldn't reclaim a substantial amount of space to warrant me doing<br>an actual cleanup (basically "benefits of disk space reclaimed" is not<br>greater than "risk of accidentally corrupting x users instances" yet).<br></blockquote><br>What release of openstack are you running? I think you might get<br>significant benefits from turning cleanup on, so long as you're using<br>grizzly [1]. I'd be very very interested in the results of a lab test.<br><br>Michael<br><br>1: yes I know its not released yet, but if you found a bug now we<br>could fix it before it hurts everyone else...<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenStack-operators mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org">OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br>http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>