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2014-03-11 17:01 GMT+08:00 ChangBo Guo <glongwave at gmail.com>:

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> 2014-03-11 16:28 GMT+08:00 Chen CH Ji <jichenjc at cn.ibm.com>:
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>  Hi
>>          We are trying to fix some eph disk related bugs and also
>> considering our private driver implementation based for eph disk ,so this
>> is not a usage question ,instead, it's a development question
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>>          I have some questions related "ephemeral_gb" in flavor and nova
>> boot option "--ephemeral", and I failed to find out descriptions in
>> existing documents:
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>>    1. If I boot a new instance using flavor with "ephemeral_gb" defined
>>    as 20 G, and no "--ephemeral" specified, does the new instance have a 20G
>>    additional ephemeral disk after booted?
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>> ephemeral_gb means the maximum value allowed ,  need  option --ephemeral
> to provide actual value, otherwise, no ephemeral disk is created.  The swap
> option has same behavior with ephemeral_gb
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Update: if without the option --ephemeral ,  the  size in flavor will be
used .

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>>    2. The flavor has 20 G ephemeral disk defined, but specified two 5 G
>>    ephemeral disk through "--ephemeral" option in nova boot cmd, what will
>>    happen to the new instance? Get one 20G additional ephemeral? Or two 5 G
>>    ephemeral disks instead?
>>    3. If the answer to question 2 is "two 5 G ephemeral disks", what
>>    will happen if resize this instance to a flavor with "ephemeral_gb" defined
>>    as 40 G?
>>    4.   I think the "ephemeral_gb" in flavor means maximum disk size you
>>    can specified, is this understanding correct?
>>    5.   Also, above question can be applied to swap disk
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>> Best Regards!
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>> Kevin (Chen) Ji 纪 晨
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>> Engineer, zVM Development, CSTL
>> Notes: Chen CH Ji/China/IBM at IBMCN   Internet: jichenjc at cn.ibm.com
>> Phone: +86-10-82454158
>> Address: 3/F Ring Building, ZhongGuanCun Software Park, Haidian District,
>> Beijing 100193, PRC
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