[openstack-dev] [cinder] Propose to add copying the reference images when creating a volume

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Mon Jul 1 10:23:18 UTC 2013


On 1 July 2013 20:18, Mate Lakat <mate.lakat at citrix.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just proposed a patch for the boot_from_volume_exercise.sh to get rid
> of --image. To be honest, I did not look at the various execution paths.
> My initial thought is that boot from volume means you boot from volume.
> If you only have a kernel + ramdisk image, I simply assumed that you
> can't do it.
>
> I would not do any magic. Boot from volume should boot from volume. If
> you only have 3 part images, you need to find another way to prepare
> your bootable volume.

This doesn't make any sense to me. Where you boot from, and what your
root filesystem are are orthogonal issues. boot from volume shouldn't
alter that.

-Rob

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Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
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