[Openstack-operators] raw ephemeral disks and qcow2 images

Tim Bell Tim.Bell at cern.ch
Mon Oct 26 02:23:11 UTC 2015






On 25/10/15 23:57, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:

>On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 07:42:53AM +0000, Tim Bell wrote:
>> Always having ephemeral disks as raw might make sense given that there
>> is going to be little overlap with others (and therefore the qcow2
>> benefits are not significant)
>
>The current big benefit for qcow2 is really the abilityo have a
>backing file, but Nova only uses that for the root disk, so having
>it for ephemeral disks isn't important and so they could easily be
>raw.

+1… agreed

>
>
>Regards,
>Daniel
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