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Hi,

I guess, the splitting point is defined by the hypervisor, so I guess
that's a +1 for the config option. Does any other hypervisor have such a
limit? If so, it would make sense to set it to the minimum of all those
limits.

Mate

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 06:02:44PM +0100, John Garbutt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have had some discussions about if I should add a config flag in this change:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/32760/
> 
> I am looking to support adding a large amount of ephemeral disk space
> to a VM, but the VHD format has a limit of around 2TB per disk. To
> work around this in XenServer, I plan to add several smaller disks to
> make up the full ephemeral disk space.
> 
> To me it seems worth adding a configuration flag (in this case),
> because there is no easy way to guess the correct value, and there
> doesn't seem to be a great value to hardcode it to. Having said that,
> I suspect the default value will be all most people need, whether or
> not they have very large ephemeral disk space in their flavors.
> 
> I am curious about what people think (in general, and in this case)
> about the tradeoff between: hardcode, magic heuristic calculation, add
> config
> 
> John
> 
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Mate Lakat