[Openstack-operators] /var/lib/nova/instances fs filled up corrupting my Linux instances

Lorin Hochstein lorin at nimbisservices.com
Wed Mar 13 20:58:17 UTC 2013


Michael:

Is this related to the remove_unused_base_images flag?

cf
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/22040/
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1126375

If so, I think this is a strong argument for changing the default.



On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Conor Glynn <cglynn at sportingindex.com>
> wrote:
> > by the way, yes both compute nodes were using that shared NFS storage...
>
> Ok, I think that is likely to have caused base images to go missing.
> If that's the case, you should be able to rescue the images from
> snapshots if you have that enabled on your netapp device. If you don't
> have snapshots or backups, then I think we could tool up a refect from
> glance, although I suspect that might involve writing code (and
> therefore delay).
>
> Please do let me know how you go with recovering.
>
> Michael
>
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Lorin Hochstein
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