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Vish,

Any more thoughts on how you want to handle this? I agree we need to get in
sync. Just need to think though all the issues.

We have some work lining up to deal with the disks and I was hoping to do it
once instead of diverging then having to redo the work.

pvo

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Chris Behrens
<chris.behrens at rackspace.com>wrote:

> Yeah, I think that can be rather fair for Unix.
>
> It's just that as you pointed out... Windows is a huge pain.   Need to make
> sure there's enough space on C: and I think there are still a lot of things
> that stupidly rely on being installed on C:
>
>
> On Sep 2, 2011, at 10:32 AM, Paul Voccio wrote:
>
> > My first thought was to do a singled fixed disk and never resize that
> disk at all. If you need space, you have to use a volume service.
> >
> > Ultimately, I don't think this the right approach either, but it solves
> the initial use case of needing more storage space.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Chris Behrens <
> chris.behrens at rackspace.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 2, 2011, at 8:07 AM, Paul Voccio wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Soren Hansen <soren at linux2go.dk>
> wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > The potential for filesystem bugs that could bring the host down gives
> > > me the heebie jeebies. I really, really don't want to mount people's
> > > filesystems.
> > >
> > >
> > > Can you explain a bit more here? I would like to understand your
> concerns. I would advocate mounting in a utility VM if you mean to protect
> from mounting instance with malicious data. We may have to do this to expand
> partitions or resize down for Windows.
> >
> > Mounting someone's filesystem should not be necessary if we have certain
> restrictions on the management.  I.e., we could say we will only resize the
> last filesystem in the partition table.  That would avoid needing to know
> the filesystem layout in the image (looking at /etc/fstab or updating it).
>  Not sure that's a desired restriction, however.
> >
> > That said, we'd still need to attach the VM disk somewhere and run fs
> resize utils... and it might still be best to do this in a utility VM.
> >
> > - Chris
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