I also have question about Flavor and ephemeral disk. if I choose from ISO install OS , the ephemeral disk would not allow zero size. whether can modify the default setting of the ephemeral disk size in flavor. On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Steven Gessner <gessners at us.ibm.com> wrote: > Hi, I hope someone can clarify the questions I have. > > When I look at the documentation on flavor files: > http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-compute/admin/content/instance-building-blocks.html#instance-building-blocks-flavors, > I see the virtual root disk size shown for the m1.small to m1.xlarge > flavors remaining constant at 10gig and the ephemeral disk ranging from 20 > to 160gig. When I look at an OpenStack environment built by a friend, I > see the ephemeral size always at 0gig and the virtual root disk size > containing the values 20 to 160gig. > > I know an admin can modify the values but my friend says he didn't. In > addition, I would have expected the virtual root disk to remain constant > for the flavors in order to allow me to easily choose different size > virtual machines to hold a Linux image. Is the documentation showing the > flavors wrong or has my friend someone incorrectly and unknowingly swapped > the values in the flavor for virtual root disk size and ephemeral size? > > Thank you for your time, > Steve Gessner > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > > -- Shake Chen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20130929/c2d55a11/attachment.html>