[Openstack] Changing the location of Nova's instances

Daniel Ellison daniel at syrinx.net
Wed May 15 13:22:12 UTC 2013


On May 15, 2013, at 9:08 AM, "Mac Innes, Kiall" <kiall at hp.com> wrote:
> Personally, I would make use of a bind mount[1] rather than trying to relocate..
> 
> A bind mount is just like a symlink, with the exception of AppArmor (and I presume SELinux) will handle it "correctly"..

Ok, so I would move the entire /var/lib/nova directory to /home/storage, then do a bind mount back to /var/lib/nova? And that would require no config changes at all. Nice! Thanks for the tip, Kiall.

Regards,
Daniel



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