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Thank you both for your answers. What Chris describes is definitely a good approach.
I think it's worth filing a wish bug. I can do it unless you want to describe your idea, Chris.

Regards,
Daniel

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Friesen" <chris.friesen at windriver.com>
> To: openstack at lists.openstack.org
> Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2013 12:57:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Is there a way to tell Nova not to count NFS-mounted instances directory to disk space on
> each node?
> 
> I think it would make sense to have an entry in the nova.conf file on
> a
> compute node to indicate that the instances are mounted on shared
> storage.
> 
> This could be fed back into the database, used in resource reporting
> (like in this case where it affects the "real" amount of storage
> available), and could also be added to the instance itself so that
> the
> evacuate/migrate commands could programmatically determine whether
> the
> instance is on shared storage or not instead of requiring the user to
> specify it.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> On 11/07/2013 04:36 AM, Razique Mahroua wrote:
> > Hey Daniel,
> >
> > Doesn’t seem possible at the moment looks like...
> > --
> > Razique
> >
> > On 7 Nov 2013 at 02:09:15, Daniel Speichert (daniel at speichert.pl
> > <mailto://daniel@speichert.pl>) wrote:
> >
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> We have a couple of compute nodes each having its
> >> /var/lib/nova/instances directory mounted via NFS from shared
> >> storage
> >> server.
> >> Nova gathers free space statistics from each compute node and adds
> >> them, making the theoretical total disk space equal N times the
> >> real
> >> one (N is the number of nodes we have).
> >> Is there a way to tell it not to count this space again on some
> >> nodes?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Daniel Speichert
> >>
> >>
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