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Matt, i'll take a stab at it

thanks,
dims

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Matt Riedemann
<mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 12/30/2013 7:30 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
>>
>> Excerpts from Day, Phil's message of 2013-12-30 11:05:17 -0800:
>>>
>>> Hi, so it seems we were saying the same thing - new vms get a shared
>>> "blank" (empty) file system,  not blank disc.  How big a problem it is that
>>> in many cases this will be the already created ext3 disk and not ext4
>>> depends I guess on how important consistency is to you (to me its pretty
>>> important).  Either way the change as it stands wont give all new vms an
>>> ext4 fs as intended,  so its flawed in that regard.
>>>
>>> Like you I was thinking that we may have to move away from "default"
>>> being in the file name to fix this.
>>>
>>
>> Indeed, "default"'s meaning is mutable and thus it is flawed as a
>> cache key.
>>
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>
> jogo brought this bug up in IRC today [1]. The bug report says that we
> should put in the Icehouse release notes that ext3 is going to be changed to
> ext4 in Juno but that never happened.  So question is, now that we're well
> into Kilo, what can be done about this now?  The thread here talks about
> doing more than just changing the default value like in the original change
> [2], but is someone willing to work on that?
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1266262
> [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/63209/
>
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>
> Matt Riedemann
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