[Openstack] Snapshotting ephemeral disks?
Vishvananda Ishaya
vishvananda at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 20:26:49 UTC 2012
On Aug 17, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at seas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> This is not possible. Sounds like you really want a fix for this bug:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/914484
>>
>> The fix was reverted but hopefully it can be cleaned up and come back in.
>
> That looks like it would get us where we want to be. My main goal is
> to have a relatively easy process for someone without administrative
> access to the host to...
>
> - Uploading an ISO image.
> - Boot an instance from that image.
> - Install an OS onto something.
> - Transform <something> from the previous step into a deployable
> image.
>
> Allowing images booted from an ISO to have an attached, snapshottable
> root drive would certainly work.
+1000
Jk0, are you planning on bringing back your patch?
Vish
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