[openstack-dev] [Nova] z/VM introducing a new config driveformat

Jim Rollenhagen jim at jimrollenhagen.com
Fri Apr 20 14:12:46 UTC 2018


On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 4:02 AM, Chen CH Ji <jichenjc at cn.ibm.com> wrote:

> Thanks a lot for your sharing, that's good info, just curious why [1] need
> zip and base64 encode if my understand is correct
> I was told nova need format should be pure vfat or iso9660, I assume it's
> because actually the config drive itself is making by iso by default
> then wrap a zip/base64 format ... thanks
>

We only gzip and base64 to send it to the ironic API. It is decoded and
unzipped before writing it to disk, so it is a pure iso9660 on the disk.

// jim
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